Sentences with phrase «state employees decades»

A state in crisis can't meet its pension obligations, and so breaks promises made to teachers and state employees decades ago.

Not exact matches

In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who had spent over a decade helping monkeys reproduce in that laboratory colony.

Levy, who is seeking the GOP nod for governor, said the new state legislation creating a tier five for new state and municipal employees would cut the overtime allowed in the final average salaries to 15 percent, but the impact of that measure will not be felt for decades.

Nearly a quarter of Long Island Power Authority employees in the last decade had connections to politically powerful people on the Island and in New York State before working at the utility, a Newsday investigation has found.

Five full months into the new fiscal year, Lembo is estimating that the state will be spending more money in the settlement of a civil lawsuit by the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition against former Gov. John G. Rowland, who laid off state employees more than a decadestate will be spending more money in the settlement of a civil lawsuit by the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition against former Gov. John G. Rowland, who laid off state employees more than a decadeState Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition against former Gov. John G. Rowland, who laid off state employees more than a deEmployees Bargaining Agent Coalition against former Gov. John G. Rowland, who laid off state employees more than a decadestate employees more than a deemployees more than a decade ago.

After nearly a decade in service to Cuomo, he now looks forward to «being a conduit... helping us communicate smart research to policymakers, to legislators, to Executive Chamber employees, to agencies, to other states looking at New York.»

Last year, the state created a different tier of pension benefits for new public employees, savings for taxpayers that will be realized decades from now.

Decades of litigation and Supreme Court decisions have led to the current state of affairs in labor law, but for public - sector employees, the Supreme Court's 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education holds sway.

For the past two decades, employers have stated that they are looking for employees able to display the «4 C's»: to think Critically — solve problems and draw sound decisions — as well as working Creatively, and able to Communicate and Collaborate on a systematic basis.

Stymied for nearly a decade in their attempts to mandate collective bargaining in every state, the nation's teachers» unions have made a breakthrough in New Mexico with the passage of a law that allows teachers and other public - sector employees to negotiate as a unit.

Having participated and watched government in action at the national, state and local level for more than four decades, I can safely say that I have never, ever, seen an meeting as unbelievably insulting as the «presentation» (PowerPoint and all) that those targeted local school administrators were forced to sit through or the even more incredible way in which public employees responded to a member of the public trying to raise important and legitimate concerns about the very issue that the school officials were summoned to the meeting to discuss.

But the state's prosecuting attorney, Ryan Haigh, made note of that fact that for more than a decade (1995 - 2007), Vandevender demonstrated for the most part a clear understanding of how to comply with remitting employee tax withholdings to the state, which he was tasked with managing during that time.

For decades Connecticut state government has refused to properly fund its state employee and teacher pension and benefit plans.

If Gov. Roy Cooper has his way, the average teacher will get an 8 percent raise next year, other state employees will get their biggest raise in a decade, and schools will get millions of dollars to upgrade security, buy supplies and hire new resource officers, nurses, counselors, social workers and psychologists.

Collaborating with the Department of Conservation and other state agencies to restore Cottontail Habitat is just one of many environmental initiatives undertaken by Inn by the Sea and their employees over the last decade.

More than 80 % of North American utility employees expect renewable energy to increase moderately or significantly in their service areas over the next decade, according to Utility Dive's fourth annual State of the Electric Utility (SEU) survey.

With nearly four decades of combined legal experience, we are highly qualified employment attorneys who understand the importance of federal and state employment laws, in addition to how they protect employees.

We have over a decade of experience representing hundreds of clients in California State Courts, Northern District Federal Court, the California Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, the Merit Systems Protection Board, the California Public Employees Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.

Over the past decade, Spencer has represented hundreds of clients in California State Courts, Northern District Federal Court, the California Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, the California Public Employees Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.

The United States has passed a series of laws over the last several decades that are designed to help protect employees in the case of job loss, medical emergencies and retirement.