Sentences with phrase «state employee labor»

The Connecticut House of Representatives voted to approve a state employee labor concession deal that's expected to save the state $ 1.5 billion over the next two years.

Marty Beil, the burly and sometimes brusque leader of the Wisconsin state employee labor union for 30 years, has died.

Not exact matches

Wisconsin is poised to strip collective bargaining rights from most of the state's 175,000 public employees in the boldest step by a new Republican governor and Legislature to solve budget problems by confronting organized labor.

Many state labor departments also have listings on their websites for employers about laws they must abide by when doing business in the state and these can be helpful in determining what to include in an employee handbook.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the program will «level the playing field for law - abiding employers and ensure that employees receive the protections to which they are entitled under federal and state law.»

Labor laws vary from state to state when it comes to passing along certain business expenses to your employees.

She points out that California labor code states personnel records are due to current or former employees, within 30 days barring a different agreement, «upon a written request from a current or former employee, or his or her representative.»

If you're unsure about the proper designation, be sure to review the IRS website, as well as the Department of Labor websites at the federal and state levels, particularly their materials on distinguishing independent contractors from employees, and check your designations with your accountant and / or labor laLabor websites at the federal and state levels, particularly their materials on distinguishing independent contractors from employees, and check your designations with your accountant and / or labor lalabor lawyer.

Backed by labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union, workers have landed some victories as individual cities and states have raised their minimum wage.

Because states differ on the payment of benefits to part - time employees, you should check corresponding regulations with your local department of labor.

All employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act will have to provide employees with notice of state - based health insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, by Oct. 1, when open enrollment is set to start, Marathas notes.

Meanwhile, just last month the New York State Department of Labor announced that it had awarded unemployment benefits to two Uber drivers after finding that they were actually employees rather than independent workers, as all drivers who use the platform to find customers are classified.

Meanwhile, Timothy Hauser, COO for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, stated at a mid-July IMCA conference in Washington that DOL plans to «push out» Q&A guidance «fairly shortly» to address questions about compliance with Labor's fiduciary rule.

Complying with a directive from the White House, the Department of Labor released last Nov. 16 a proposed rule and interpretive bulletin to help guide states in developing state - run retirement plans that don't run afoul of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Borzi, assistant secretary of Labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, stated at the meeting that DOL spent hours trying to ensure the rule struck the right balance between what constitutes education and what constitutes advice.

Critics of the Labor Department's rule have argued that requiring advisors to serve as fiduciaries to the small and midsize plan market will negatively affect access to 401 (k) plans at a time when policymakers at the federal and state level are crafting and passing legislation intended to broaden access to retirement savings for employees of small employers.

Keep in mind: if your new remote employee works in a state different from your HQ, you'll have to comply with labor laws (including minimum wage), payroll taxes, health insurance, and any other compliance specific to the state in which the employee works.

Parent is involved in several lawsuits in which the plaintiffs are seeking unpaid overtime compensation and other damages based on allegations that various employees of Electronic Data Systems Corporation («EDS») or Parent have been misclassified as exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act and / or in violation of the California Labor Code or other state laws.

Most Supreme Court watchers are predicting that a majority of justices will side with the petitioner — Mark Janus, a child support specialist for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services — against labor in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)-- An agency of the United States Department of Labor office that focuses on making sure business owners are providing a safe and helpful work environment for their employees.

American Bakers Association (ABA) says the newly - proposed bill to synchronize the Fair Labor Act's definition of «employee» with that stated by federal law could benefit independent contractors in the baking industry.

The petition, filed with the Illinois Labor Relations Board, notes that a majority of employees have said they want to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Eemployees have said they want to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal EmployeesEmployees.

According to documents filed with the state labor board, AFSCME has requested to represent «all full and part - time, non-professional (park district) employees who work over 1,000 hours» annually.

Officials from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees recently filed documents with the Illinois Labor Relations Board to be a recognized union representing parks eEmployees recently filed documents with the Illinois Labor Relations Board to be a recognized union representing parks employeesemployees.

Some employees also tried to unionize resulting in the dismissal of one employee and a recent ruling from the state labor board that the employee must be reinstated.

Also at 11 a.m., Assemblyman Francisco Moya, representatives from the IBEW Utility Labor Council of NYS, James Slevin of UWUA Local 1 - 2 (Con Ed NYC), and representatives from utility companies, including PSEG, speak about the violence encountered by utility employees during the course of performing their duty, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol.

AG Andrew Cuomo chose Labor Day weekend to call on state employee unions to make sacrifices «in the spirit of cooperation» like they did in the 1970s to help solve New York's fiscal crisis.

A lawyer for the state's department of labor, Pico Ben - Amotz, said the wage order it issued this summer — which followed recommendations of a three - member board convened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — would eventually impose an hourly wage rate of $ 15 on employees of any fast food chain with more than 30 locations, be they in New York or elsewhere.

Other Syracuse - area names on the jury questionnaire include: Juanita Perez Williams, a former Syracuse mayoral candidate and state labor department employee; Rob Simpson, president of CenterState CEO; Andrew Breuer, president of Hueber - Breuer Construction; James Fayle, regional director for Empire State Development; and several employees or Cor Developstate labor department employee; Rob Simpson, president of CenterState CEO; Andrew Breuer, president of Hueber - Breuer Construction; James Fayle, regional director for Empire State Development; and several employees or Cor DevelopState Development; and several employees or Cor Development.

A spokesperson for Governor Andrew Cuomo called the closure «an egregious example of corporate abuse» and said that Cuomo has directed the state labor department to dispatch its rapid response team to help employees during the transition.

President of the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, AFL - CIO; Business Manager of Hotel, Restaurant & Club Employees and Bartenders Union, Local 6; Recording Secretary of the International Union, UNITE HERE; Vice President of the New York City Central Labor Council, and Vice President of the New York State AFL - CIO.

Also at 1 p.m., the New York Civil Liberties Union presents oral arguments in the Albany County Supreme Court challenging the exclusion of farmworkers from the state labor law that protects employees who organize, Albany County Courthouse, 16 Eagle St., Albany.

Labor advocates say they want the state of Connecticut to tax companies that pay low wages to their employees, companies like big box retail stores and fast food chains.

Malliotakis» expressed view matches that of much of organized labor, opposing a convention on fears that it could result in weakening or eliminating the existing state constitution's prohibition on reducing public employee pensions.

The Trump administration sought to undermine public - sector labor unions with a brief submitted on Dec. 6 in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

New data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows New York state and local government employees experienced a much higher rate of injury and illness than workers in any other industry during 2012.

Most of the labor contracts for the state's 190,000 employees expire at the end of March.

In a year of contentious negotiations between state governments and public employee unions, 52 % of Americans approve of labor unions, unchanged from 2010.

The Times Herald Record, a Hudson Valley daily newspaper, reported in early 2012 that three Aaron employees had in several preceding years gone «to the state commissioner of labor to be awarded $ 22,000» after the agency found Aaron had violated state labor laws.

«It's ironic to see state employee union leaders organizing a protest on budget cuts that are a direct result of their labor deal, which has sucked our budget dry,» Fasano said.

This PEF report on consultant spending at the DOH is the fifth such report released in recent weeks by the labor union, which represents nearly 54,000 professional, scientific and technical employees of the state, including more than 3,000 at DOH.

It will not be tolerated,» said state parole officer V. Antonio Perez, an Executive Board member of the NYS Public Employees Federation (PEF), the labor union that represents parole officers and other professional, scientific and technical employees of tEmployees Federation (PEF), the labor union that represents parole officers and other professional, scientific and technical employees of temployees of the state.

Those less - happy labor groups include public employee unions, who will offer formal testimony Friday afternoon at a legislative budget hearing, and teachers» unions, who are mobilizing against the governor at meetings around the state and trading press barbs with the second floor on a near - daily basis.

Cuomo also said he has overwhelming support from unions, even though the state's AFL - CIO — a labor coalition encompassing 2.5 million workers — declined to endorse him under pressure from teachers and public employees.

July 7: An Empire State Development employee sends an email to Joe Gerardi: «ESD funding for this project will trigger the requirement for the Labor Peace Agreement.

If the court sides with Mr. Janus, it would spark the biggest change in government labor relations and state politics in New York since the passage of the Taylor Law in 1967, which first established ground rules for public employee unions.

A New York State effort to more tightly regulate the prepaid cards on which many employees receive their wages was struck down by a review board, which ruled that the state's Labor Department exceeded its authority in imposing fee limits and other restrictions on the cState effort to more tightly regulate the prepaid cards on which many employees receive their wages was struck down by a review board, which ruled that the state's Labor Department exceeded its authority in imposing fee limits and other restrictions on the cstate's Labor Department exceeded its authority in imposing fee limits and other restrictions on the cards.

Cuomo ordered state employees not use an Albany hotel during a four - month labor dispute, but that didn't stop his own political apparatchiks from booking a room there.

A new proposal of the New York State Department of Labor that's designed to provide employees fair wages has some local small business owners concerned about their bottom lines.

Cuomo, who in his first term had a decidedly strained relationship with public - sector labor groups who represent state employees as well as teachers, said there's an «anti-union movement» afoot in the coutnry.