Sentences with phrase «state employees raises»

The NC General Assembly will debate teacher salary raises, school safety, prison safety, GenX funding, state employee raises, retiree COLAs, and more leading up to the 2018 midterms.

NC teacher protests on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 will start off the state legislature's 2018 budget debate on teacher salary raises, school safety, prison safety, GenX funding, state employee raises, and more leading up to the 2018 midterms.

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Puzder has also come under fire for saying that fast - food chains will increasingly rely on machines, instead of human employees, if states raise the minimum wage.

Rather than raising corporate tax rates, the Rhode Island legislation, Senate Bill 2796, would give preferential treatment in state contract bids to companies that pay their highest - paid executive no more than 32 times the pay of their lowest - paid full - time employee.

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.

While 58 percent of small business owners said they support raising the minimum wage, 71 percent said the states should set it, and 77 percent said they already pay their employees more than the minimum wage.

On Wednesday, a panel appointed by the governor recommended that the minimum wage be raised for employees of fast - food chain restaurants throughout the state to $ 15 an hour over the next few years.

† In 2009, Kentucky declined to raise CCA's per diem rate at one facility because the company's prison was twice as violent as its state - run counterpart and because a suicidal employee smuggled in a gun and shot herself in the warden's office.

The Empire Center for New York Policy thinks it has found a legal way for the state to block contractually negotiated raises for public employees.

The 2005 case of United States v. Franklin, Rosen, and Weissman against United States Department of Defense employee Larry Franklin and American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy director Steven Rosen and AIPAC senior Iran analyst Keith Weissman [41][42] raised the possibility that AIPAC would come under greater scrutiny by the Department of Justice.

Public employee union leaders slammed Gov. David Paterson for giving five of his staffers big raises as he pushed a furlough plan for state workers.

Gov. David Paterson this morning lambasted public employee unions for making an issue of the $ 42,000 worth of raises he granted — and subsequently rescinded — to five members of his own staff at a time when he was pushing for a furlough for state workers.

The leadership of the state's largest public workers union says the proposal also raises questions and uncertainty for local government employees.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox wants the Manhattan DA to investigate the governor, saying testimony in the Percoco trial raises questions about whether he and / or other executive chamber employees «knowingly aided and abetted or acquiesced to such unlawful acts.»

The bill pitted public - employee unions against the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the state - imposed county financial control board, over the issue of «step raises,» or salary hikes based on time on the job.

«Raising taxes again will increase the cost of living for nearly every resident and small business in the state, negatively impacting our employees and customers.

The contract comes about seven months after New York's second - largest state worker union, the white collar Public Employees Federation, reached its own three - year deal with 2 percent annual raises, no increases in negotiated health - care premium sharing and no givebacks.

Percoco also allegedly pressured state employees to approve a raise for one of the developer's sons, who was working in Cuomo's office.

The governor raised the specter of the unprecedented furloughs late last month as he expressed frustration with the Legislature's refusal to cut state spending as well as the refusal of the public - employee unions to agree to concessions to help close a looming $ 9.5 billion budget deficit.

Budget bills posted late last night showed a long - sought pay raise schedule for management - confidential workers — state employees who are not members of a public - workers union — that would be in place through 2018.

While highlighting this proposal, the Governor announced that the State University of New York will raise the minimum wage for more than 28,000 employees.

Representative Charles Rangel, left, D - N.Y., listens as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as he and formally announced he would be using his executive authority to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for all state employees.

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«No state agency officer or employee who serves at the pleasure of the governor or their appointing authority or members of state public authority or other boards appointed by the governor may contribute to and / or fund - raise for Andrew Cuomo 2018,» the website says.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made national headlines Tuesday when he announced the minimum wage for state employees will be raised to $ 15 an hour.

The old disclaimer read: «No State agency officer or employee who serves at the pleasure of the governor or their appointing authority or members of state public authority or other boards appointed by the governor may contribute to and / or fund - raise for Andrew Cuomo 2018.&rState agency officer or employee who serves at the pleasure of the governor or their appointing authority or members of state public authority or other boards appointed by the governor may contribute to and / or fund - raise for Andrew Cuomo 2018.&rstate public authority or other boards appointed by the governor may contribute to and / or fund - raise for Andrew Cuomo 2018.»

The new disclaimer is far more specific: «Under Executive Order 7, (1) New York State at - will employees, and (2) board or commission members appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the governor on a policymaking board or commission (i.e. members must file financial disclosure statements), may not contribute to and / or fund - raise for Andrew Cuomo 2018.»

Several veteran lawyers who have read Section 107.3 of the Civil Service Law, which prohibits state employees from allowing political donations in state facilities «occupied for any governmental purpose,» say they warn or would advise their political clients to stay off the track for fund - raising.

«Gov. David Paterson's unilateral delay of a fairly negotiated raise for CSEA represented state employees is wrong and the governor knows it.

PEF and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's team agreed upon a 2 percent raise for state employees in the bargaining unit, retroactive to April 1, 2015 when the PS&T contract expired.

ALBANY, NY (10/18/2016)(readMedia)-- Dozens of professional caregivers represented by the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) will rally to raise public awareness to the closing of the Bernard Fineson Developmental Disabilities Services Office in March 2017.

Percoco still kept his office next to Cuomo's and his swipe card to enter the building, and made 837 calls on state - owned telephones, pushing pet projects and getting pay raises for a favored employee, investigators say.

Reforming the state's pension plan for new employees will put our costs in line with other states across the nation and preserve the invaluable services, like education and public safety, that make New York the best place to live, do business and raise a family.»

-- Creates a new pay raise commission that will have the power to increase salaries for state legislators and top executive branch employees.

The deal offered to Civil Service Employees Association Local 058, to run through 2022, is similar to a contract recently approved by one of the state's largest unions, the Public Employees Federation, with 2 percent annual raises going forward.

Cuomo said the state had agreed to raise salaries for Public Employees Federation (PEF) members by 2 percent a year over three years, or a cumulative 6.12 percent, starting in the current fiscal year.

The 9,200 state employees designated management / confidential or «M / C» haven't seen a pay raise since the 2008 financial crisis.

The state Senate approved a measure on Tuesday that would create a commission to recommend pay raises for non-union state employees designated management confidential.

The state's approximately 11,000 non-union management / confidential employees received some good news: Their earlier - promised 2 percent raises will be arriving on May 26 or June 1, depending on whether they are on the so - called institutional or administrative payrolls.

The governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed some public employees in Nassau County to receive «step» raises even when county wages are frozen — a measure that pitted public - employee unions against the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the state - imposed county financial control board.

After several years of contentious bargaining, Erie County has settled a contract with the its blue - collar union, offering 2 percent raises each year for the next four years to the 1,500 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1095.

«This [federal] investigation has recently raised questions of improper lobbying and undisclosed conflicts of interest by some individuals which may have deceived state employees involved in the respective programs and may have defrauded the state,» David wrote.

Marty Beil, executive director of the 23,000 - member Wisconsin State Employees Union, said he wasn't surprised the plan included no raises for each of the next two years.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and otheEmployees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and otheemployees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

«Here we are in the state of Connecticut cutting, year after year, asking our state employees to make sacrifices, and we open up the paper and see municipalities getting raises at a time when they keep saying Hartford please send us the money.»

«In general, I think the raises are important to keep some of these employees,» Fahey said, noting the disparity in salaries between the city and state.

The resulting Committee to Save New York rapidly became the state's biggest single lobbyist, raising and spending at least $ 15 million and running TV and radio ads that backed Cuomo's (ultimately successful) proposals for capping local property taxes and reducing the cost of public - employee pensions.

De Blasio raised the minimum wage for city employees in January 2016, about three months before the New York State Legislature passed a new statewide minimum wage in April.

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The raises come as the administration heads toward contract negotiations with the Public Employees Federation, a union of 54,000 white - collar state workers whose current agreement expires on April 1.