Sentences with phrase «state legislative pay raise»

Negotiations over a state legislative pay raise are set to go down to the wire next week with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature facing off in a game of political hardball.

But as a commission considers recommending the first state legislative pay raise since 1999 for lawmakers, Cuomo is dialing back his praise of the Senate and Assembly, citing the corruption arrests and convictions of lawmakers over the years.

Not exact matches

The state's chief judge, Janet DiFiore, has declined to serve on a commission that will consider enacting the first executive and legislative pay raises in 20 years.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) says he's opposed to voting on any kind of legislative package that links a potential pay raise to some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pet proposals.

Even this year, when a number of lawmakers threatened to disrupt his annual State of the State address with protests over the governor's refusal to go along with legislative pay raises, Cuomo didn't plead with them or negotiate.

«That is why I urge you all to send a clear message that you understand legislative pay raises must be earned, and the State Legislature simply hasn't done enough to warrant one.»

He also touted money for beach renourishment projects and pay raises for state workers, both of which were personal priorities during the 2017 Legislative Session.

Duffy and his colleagues talk about their legislative preferences for the New York State legislature and current topics of interest, including paid family leave and raising the minimum wage.

Cuomo's comments came after a dust up last week on the commission examining salaries in the legislative, judicial and executive branches in state government over whether legislators were making a clear enough argument for a pay raise.

James Coll, a veteran New York City detective who lectures on constitutional law, is appealing a Long Island judge's recent dismissal of his lawsuit seeking to kill a commission considering state legislative, executive, and judicial pay raises.

That kind of money in the pipeline would trigger gleeful ribbon - cuttings all over the state and perhaps some justification for a legislative pay raise for lawmakers who voted for it.

A legislative committee has scheduledFive groups of unionized state workers that negotiated their pay raises with Gov. Scott Walker's administration are poised to receive the same 1 percent raise that non-union workers got in July.a meeting to vote on proposed contracts for five smaller Wisconsin unions.

Also at 11 a.m., the Commission on Legislative Compensation holds its final public hearing on a potential pay raise for executive chamber employees and state lawmakers, New York City Bar Association, 42 W. 44th St., Manhattan.

A legislative pay raise has been held out as a carrot before to state lawmakers by Cuomo.

An ethics reform proposal quietly circulated between Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York legislative leaders for a possible special session that could also include a pay raise is getting blasted by the State's Attorney General as possibly unconstitutional.

A veteran New York City detective who lectures on constitutional law is appealing a Long Island judge's recent dismissal of his lawsuit seeking to kill a commission considering state legislative, executive, and judicial pay raises.

The state Attorney General's Office argued the pay raise commission, which is made up of appointees of the governor, legislative leaders, and the state's chief judge, is legal and that the case should be dismissed.

Legislators are fuming that Cuomo broke his word about the state pay raise commission that he promised would «depoliticize» the debate over legislative pay.

Where he traded a reduction in pension benefits for the ability to draw legislative districts and authorized the state's first charter schools in exchange for a pay raise.

Given the sluggish economy, State Senator Mark Grisanti says this is no time for a legislative pay raise.

The state's chief judge has declined to serve on a commission that will consider enacting the first executive and legislative pay raises in 20 years.

The two legislative leaders declined to attend any of the six State of the State events, expressing their displeasure at the governor for interfering in the work of an independent commission that would have given lawmakers pay raises for the first time in years and then leveraging ethics reform to consider a special legislative session in December.

On the 10th, we'll hear all about legislative pay raises, or not, and on the 23rd the eagerly awaited indictments are finally due for most of those involved in the biggest state corruption scandal in memory.

A much - discussed plan for a special legislative session in Albany to deliberate whether state lawmakers» pay should be raised and consider a host of other issues is off the table, after an announcement late Friday that negotiations had come up short.

Whereas in the state, the pay commission's recommendations for legislative pay raises will automatically become law and go into effect for the next class of lawmakers, on January 1, 2017, unless the Legislature specifically votes against the increases.

It's likely the governor would re-purpose some of the proposals he pushed both during the 2016 legislative session and as he negotiated an ultimately ill - fated trade for a pay raise for state lawmakers late last year.

During this year's legislative session lawmakers used teacher assistants as political footballs, lobbing them back and forth as either a group deserving of losing their jobs — Senate budget writers proposed ridding the state of half of its TAs to pay for teacher raises — or, as the House and Governor Pat McCrory preferred, saving them from the chopping block.