Sentences with phrase «salary freeze»

Teachers received a 1 % rise last year, after two years of salary freezes, in line with the general 1 % pay cap across the public sector.

After all, this is the governor who in the middle of cuts three years ago urged voters to reject school budgets if teachers wouldn't take salary freezes.

Large companies often do salary freezes, too, meaning raises can be few and far between.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will seek a one - year salary freeze for state workers as part of an emergency financial plan he will lay out in his State of the State address on Wednesday, senior administration officials said.

Specifically, she called on state leaders to impose an emergency salary freeze on public employees, including municipal workers; to enact pension reforms that cut expenses; and to require arbitrators to weigh the impact on taxpayers when resolving disputes between the city and its unions.

In November, following the Republican takeover of the House, President Obama ordered a two - year salary freeze for civilian federal workers, subject to Congressional approval.

In his «New New York Agenda,» Cuomo has called for a number of initiatives that don't sit well with the labor community, including a public employee salary freeze, a property tax cap and support for charter schools.»]

Of course, especially if you accidentally send the whole firm an email touting rising partner profits after instituting salary freezes, or outsource too much work to your virtual assistant.

However, there are signs that merit - based pay and bonus structures are being treated as more interchangeable post the widespread UK salary freeze in 2009.

McGrigors has announced a large - scale cost - cutting programme that will see partners taking a reduced share of the firm's profits, staff agreeing to unpaid leave, and a firmwide salary freeze.

The government recognizes that everybody needs to do their part in tough times, and, as a result, has proposed to extend the pay freeze for Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) through Bill 177, the MPP Salary Freeze Act, 2014, until the budget is balanced.

Salary freezes across the board have been common... not sure where the author found evidence that «savings has been passed on to good teachers.»

If you've been following the news, you'll have seen articles in the Globe and Mail and Financial Post about expected salary freezes and potential job cuts in Canada's oil and gas industry.

As he is poised to call for a one year «emergency» salary freeze for state workers, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to lead by example by announcing he will take a five percent pay cut himself.

The plan called for imposing a one - year salary freeze on the vast majority of public employees whose contracts are up for renegotiation as of April 1; holding the line on taxes; and imposing a state spending cap limiting spending growth to the rate of inflation.

But make no mistake: These layoffs, - which in many cases have been paired with salary freezes or cuts and significant reductions in law school recruiting, - are the best thing to happen to the legal industry in years.

In his «New New York Agenda,» Cuomo has called for a number of initiatives that don't sit well with the labor community, including a public employee salary freeze, a property tax cap and support for charter schools.

As other districts were laying off teachers, Corona - Norco's union agreed to a pay cut and a five - year salary freeze in 2010.

Last month the Scottish firm announced a large - scale cost - cutting programme that will see partners taking a reduced share of the firm's profits, staff agreeing to unpaid leave, and a firmwide salary freeze.

The plan called for imposing a one - year salary freeze on the vast majority of public employees whose contracts are up for renegotiation as of April 1; holding the line on taxes; and imposing a State spending cap limiting spending growth to the rate of inflation.

The Spanish government outlined an austere 2014 budget that includes further cuts in spending by its ministries and a salary freeze for public employees despite the country's emergence from recession.

File photo: Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski is in favor of a salary freeze for county elected officials.

Of course, there was a catch to Cuomo's agreement to run on Row E this year: WFP leaders had to agree to support his New New York Agenda, which includes some proposals unfriendly to unions, like a property tax cap and a salary freeze for state workers.

He has instead proposed a cap on state spending and a salary freeze for state workers.

During his gubernatorial campaign, Andrew Cuomo pledged to institute a salary freeze for all state workers in 2011.

The salary freeze would begin with next year's budget, and cover county lawmakers and other elected officials when their terms expire.

«At a time when nurses, teachers and police have all either had their salaries frozen or they've seen a minimal pay - rise, it is simply not acceptable that some people working in the public sector are on the receiving end of six - figure redundancy payments.

Your «other government workers» have had their salaries frozen since at least 2010.

«Federal judges have had their raises and salaries frozen for the last three years.

MINEOLA, NY (04/05/2011)(readMedia)-- Repeated good - faith efforts by CSEA to fairly negotiate work force cost - savings with the Nassau County executive may now be undermined by the Nassau Interim Finance Authority's recently imposed wage and salary freeze.

After the homosexual marriage passes, Roy can go back to being scared of government employees and acting like a frightened little boy when the Governor presses for salary freeze and pension reform.

Mr. Cuomo is expected to call for a salary freeze for state workers in his State of the State address.

«A salary freeze is obviously a difficult thing for many government workers, but it's necessary if the state is going to live within its means.»

A one - year salary freeze, she added, would be «a beginning, and it's a shot across the bow at organized labor, which has to date been uncompromising.»

Bloomberg started pushing for changes to last in - first out last year, but dropped the issue after the salary freeze averted teacher layoffs.

Nassau had 680 such employees in 2016, 488 in 2015 and 449 in 2014, when Nassau's financial control board lifted a salary freeze for union workers that had been in place since 2011.

The money is supposed to be used to prevent teacher layoffs, although some districts already managed to avoid that with salary freezes and other give - back agreements with unionized employees.

The teachers union had adamantly rejected a salary freeze — which would have saved an estimated $ 300,000.

But each time enrollment falls, district leaders seem to be caught off guard, forced to dip into reserves, pare down extracurriculars, and make out - of - cycle pleas for rescue funding in order to avert salary freezes, seniority - based layoffs, or school closures.

Since millions of other Americans have lost their jobs and almost everyone in the private sector is being asked to accept a salary freeze, that seems not too much to ask of school teachers.

The salary freeze, for instance.

This meant, of course, that the teachers, who, through their union, had adamantly rejected any salary freeze — which would have saved an estimated $ 500,000 (see # 5)-- had no stake in this vote — not as taxpayers.

Cost - saving actions in public education, such as layoffs, school closures, salary freezes, benefit reductions, and decreasing school days, are possible but unusual.

(During our budget debate the previous spring, my suggestion that we could save ten jobs if staff took a salary freeze was soundly defeated.

The pay schedule also keeps teachers» salaries frozen for five years at a time.

The situation is even worse in North Carolina, where teachers earn less than the national average and those that have been fortunate enough to retain their jobs have had their salaries frozen for almost four years.