Sentences with phrase «public sector workforce»

Has a very large public sector workforce and growing Asian population (though it's true that some could vote Conservative).

The initial retirement figures were large, but when put in context relative to the state's total public sector workforce, the numbers weren't as remarkable.

Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints.

In essence, better funding and a proper investment in public education would foster a virtuous cycle of economic activity that will help students gain the best education possible, keep them here in Florida rather than being siphoned off by brain drain, and have them hired by local companies who are growing and expanding thanks in part to the largest public sector workforce in the state being able to live a little rather than work two or three jobs just to make ends meet.

«A smaller, higher quality public sector workforce will mean better public services,» said director Andrew Haldenby.

As he enters City Hall, de Blasio will inherit a number of challenges left by Bloomberg, from negotiating contracts with the city's entire public sector workforce to delivering on his promise for significant parts of his plan for universal pre-kindergarten by September of next year.

The difference in tone at the two consultation meetings is likely explained in the job losses caused by the decline in the international price of oil, which has impacted Calgary and communities in northern Alberta in larger numbers than Edmonton, which has been somewhat sheltered by a boom of large construction projects and a large public sector workforce.

Ireland is cutting the costs of the public sector workforce through reductions in both pay (an average 7 per cent cut for all public servants) and headcount and reforming public sector pensions.

Part of this scene is the six Pay Review Bodies, that themselves cover a third of the public sector workforce.

What most unites them is perhaps their biggest positive: the inherent advantages of a large public sector workforce.

Interestingly, their father is in the forefront, pushing for the downsizing of the public sector workforce.

«But it is important, as a matter of balance, to point out that the savings, rising to # 13 billion over 50 years, are the savings we set out to make; and crucially, that ten per cent of the public sector workforce is replaced each year.

Mr Deputy Speaker, when we started the unavoidable task of reducing the size of the public sector workforce, some in this house expressed doubts that the private sector would be able to make up the difference.

A very good source tells ConHome that the unions have as much as # 25m to spend on campaigns to oppose cuts in the public sector workforce and in public sector pay.

As long as black workers continue to enter the public sector workforce, Laird said, it will continue to offer them type of upward mobility it long has.

Overall, aboriginal people represent less than 1 % of the public sector workforce in most science and technology occupations.