Sentences with phrase «public sector employees used»

For example, in New Brunswick, while Francophones represent approximately 33 % of that province's population, 32 % of public sector employees used French as a language of work.

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This includes changing daylight savings time, cutting working hours of public sector employees and urging residents to scale back on their use of electricity.

Grey fleets are vehicles owned by employees but used for business purposes — a practice that exists both in the public and private sector.

At the same time, the myth of the overpaid public employee is being used to undermine a range of progressive priorities, from financial reform to job creation bills like the Local Jobs for America Act, which would boost the economy by preserving public services and public sector jobs.

He noted that the new plans which are similar to «438Ks» are actually popular among public sector employees when they are given the choice to use them, because they have increased potability.

Elsewhere in the report, MPs also expressed shock that senior public sector employees had been advised by the department to avoid tax by using a managed service company.

On average, the number of sick days used by public sector employees is nearly three times that of private sector workers, who took an average of three days off in 2008, the New York Post reported Thursday.

According to the piece, public employee union leaders and community organizations gathered in Washington, D.C. in 2014 and came up with a 3 - point plan: use the bargaining process as a way to challenge the relationships between government and the private - sector; work with community allies to create new, shared goals that help advance both worker and citizen power; and recognize militancy and collective action will likely be necessary if workers and citizens are to reduce inequality and strengthen democracy.

In other words, Ohanian thinks you could use job security as a means of attracting employees into the public sector even if you offered salaries roughly 10 % lower than in the private sector because the job security itself has some value.

What he said was that instead of using that money to fully fund pensions promised to public sector employees — teachers and school employees — instead we were using it to hire extra staff.

We use data from workers in the largest public - sector occupation in the United States — teaching — to examine the effect of pension enhancements on employee retention.

Public - sector contracts will likely be taken on directly, meaning employees used for those contracts can transfer across automatically.

Like their private sector peers, public sector IT employees are clearly interested in digital transformation through the use of new technologies.

As a professional working in both official languages day in and day out, I found a recent study conducted by the Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine and the Institut de recherche sur le français en Amérique particularly interesting: nearly 14 % of employees in Quebec's education, health and public sectors predominantly use English as a language of work and this, with Anglophones only representing 9 % of Quebec's population (the study was based on the 2006 census).