Sentences with phrase «public employee benefits»

Although the Board went out of its way to indicate that its analysis was case - specific and that the outcome does not entail that all private or public employee benefit plans are required to cover the cost of medical cannabis, one can not help but feel that this decision is in fact precedent setting and may signal the opening of the floodgates for similar complaints to be made across the country.

Public employee benefit costs in New York are incredibly out of line with those in the private sector, and impose enormous pressure on state and local government budgets.

Republicans insisted the measure was necessary to control the skyrocketing costs of public employee benefits and close the budget shortfall.

Even if he succeeds in winning a freeze, experts said, Mr. Cuomo will ultimately need to tackle more difficult public employee benefits, including a substantial restructuring of the state's pension system, which faces serious shortfalls in the coming years.

Majorities oppose cutting public employee benefits or pay in order to reduce state budget deficits or taking away some collective bargaining rights from public employee unions.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted public employee pensions, current layoff rules and educators serving in the Absent Teacher Reserve in a State of the City address on Jan. 19 in which he said he would shrink the cost of government by going after public employee benefits rather than raise taxes to meet this year's budget challenges.

SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Gov. Scott Walker promised to target public employee benefits and Medicaid programs in order to deal with Wisconsin's budget shortfall, but offered few details in his first State of the State...

The paper cited the «decision to sweeten an already lucrative pension program in 1998 [as] a classic example of how public employee benefits are enhanced, often with privileged insiders pushing for the deal, and little study in advance.»

And others want to use shortfalls as an excuse to try to gut public employee benefits altogether.

In fact, the Board of Inquiry specifically stated:» [the decision]... does not mean that all private or public employee benefits plans are required to cover medical marijuana or any other drug for that matter.»

By Matt Pommer Are public employee benefits a key target of Gov. Scott Walker's bid to control all state administrative rules?

We have known for some time that public employee benefits can not be sustained at the level created years ago and today's contracts should be in line with the wages and benefits received in the private sector.

Newspaper editorial writers have picked up the chant by also declaring that Connecticut's public employee benefit and pension system is unsustainable.

This secretive attack on the public comes in many forms: privatizing education, weakening unions and public employee benefits, increasing gun violence, keeping legitimate voters away from the polls, denying climate change science, limiting the liability of corporations that harm people, and many other items on the Big Business wishlist.