Sentences with phrase «state public employee pension»

Last night, by overwhelming margins, the Rhode Island legislature passed what may be the nation's most comprehensive state public employee pension reform ever.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, sole trustee of the state public employee pension fund, is again pushing for energy giant ExxonMobil to disclose how efforts to mitigate global warming will impact its corporate bottom line.

Not exact matches

Over the past few years, public pensions including California Public Employee's Retirement System (CalPERs) and California State Teacher's Retirement System (Calstrs)-- the largest in the country by assets — have posting mediocre returns due to low interest rates and growing retirement obligapublic pensions including California Public Employee's Retirement System (CalPERs) and California State Teacher's Retirement System (Calstrs)-- the largest in the country by assets — have posting mediocre returns due to low interest rates and growing retirement obligaPublic Employee's Retirement System (CalPERs) and California State Teacher's Retirement System (Calstrs)-- the largest in the country by assets — have posting mediocre returns due to low interest rates and growing retirement obligations.

Other top pension PE players over the same period were the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (15.5 percent); the Houston Firefighters» Relief and Retirement Fund (13.6 percent); the Minnesota State Board of Investment (14.4 percent); and the Iowa Public Employees» Retirement System (14.1 percent).

State and local employees» contributions to the two largest pension systems increased by 10 %, from 5 % to 5.5 % of their annual salaries and increased the retirement benefit age for new public employees, from 55 to 60 years.

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Cuomo did call for some things that will be unpopular with public employee unions (freezing pay, creating a Tier VI in the pension fund, reducing the size of state government — a move that will undoubtedly necessitate job cuts, but he makes no mention of that I can find in «The New NY Agenda: A Plan for Action»).

State Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public emploState Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public emplostate teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public employees.

Albert Teichman, Chief Assistant to Rice in her former position as Nassau County District Attorney, was accused of double - dipping in the state's public employee pension program.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo previously has said he planned to halt future fossil fuel investments in the state's public employee pension fund.

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.

That law allowed for the pensions of subsequently elected legislators to be taken after a criminal conviction, and defined «public official» in a way that also included rank - and - file state employees but excluded police officers, firefighters and teachers.

In 2012, he pushed to reduce pension benefits for new public employees in exchange for allowing legislators to draw their own district lines, breaking a campaign promise to reformers and helping Republicans retain their grip on power in the state Senate.

It's practically an annual tradition for state lawmakers at the end of the legislative session: approving bills designed to expand pension benefits for public employees.

Oregon public pensions are the state mechanism by which state and many local government employees in Oregon receive retirement benefits.

State law prohibits most government employees from taking both a full salary and a public pension without a special waiver.

Similarly, the amount state and local governments will have to pay into the state's main pension fund for other public employees would double to nearly $ 4 billion — even if most localities opt into a borrowing scheme approved this year by lawmakers to soften the blow.

Showing his law firm the state money (2006): Silver shuffles the Judiciary Committee, and a Senate - passed bill to bar pension - drawing public employees from suing their employers dies without a vote.

Seventy - seven percent of those polled said the pension stripping should apply to all state employees - not just elected officials - who are convicted of crimes that relate to their public jobs.

Newsday has assembled a database of pension costs that reveals what public agencies on Long Island pay into three state pension systems - the Employees» Retirement System, the Police and Fire Retirement System, and the Teachers» Retirement System.

«For instance, the proposal for a new state pension Tier 6 with dramatically reduced benefits and increased employee costs is called a reform, but would be very destructive to public service.

The NYC public employees don't give a darn about the Common Pension System because they have their own and it is not under the State Comptroller.

A Siena Research Institute poll in May found 77 percent of voters wanted all state employees, including legislators, to be stripped of their public pensions when convicted of crimes related to their public jobs.

Cohen supports the Business Council's Enough Already NY campaign's Five to Survive economic reform agenda which includes: a property tax cap; a state spending cap; reducing the tax burden; reforming public employee pensions and limiting government borrowing.

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.»

«Stripping pensions from legislators - as well as any state employee - convicted of a crime related to their public jobs is an issue that has the overwhelming support of New Yorkers,» Greenberg said.

Pensions of public employees are protected by the state constitution as property, even though Stevenson was not in the Assembly long enough to be vested.

Populist outrage is building over the state's historically untouchable public - employee unions, with their ever - expanding pensions and outdated culture of unfireable workers and overpaid bureaucrats.

In a major blow to Gov. Chris Christie that complicates his 2016 ambitions, a New Jersey judge ruled that he violated state law when he declined to make the full payment into the state's pension system for public employees last year and ordered him to find a way to fund it now.

The Tier VI pension agreement in 2012 gives state workers earning more than $ 75,000 access to defined contribution system based on the model used by public university employees, known as TIAA - CREF.

The state investigation into the use of overtime to increase the pensions of public employees, started with great fanfare in 2010 when then - AG Cuomo was prepare to run for governor, has been dropped without so much as a report.

How is Andrew Cuomo going to cut the public employee union pension deals that are bankrupting New York State?

As for reducing the pensions of current public employees, pollsters should read the relevant section of the state constitution to poll respondents.

New Yorkers also oppose (56 - 37) reducing pension benefits for public employees, despite the fact that experts like the Empire Center's EJ McMahon have warned the state is headed for a serious fiscal mess if generous taxpayer - funded benefits packages aren't scaled back soon.

For example, state legislators packed a session on modifying public employee pensions at the recent meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures in Louisville,state legislators packed a session on modifying public employee pensions at the recent meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures in Louisville,State Legislatures in Louisville, Ky..

He wants the good public employees to provide information about their coworkers and bosses who don't work hard enough, misuse state cars and expense accounts and double dip on the state pension system.

The law in question takes away nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers and also forces state employees to contribute more toward their pension and health care benefits, amounting to an 8 percent pay cut.

He said he would vote again this year to pass a bill that allows the state to strip pension payments from all state officials and employees who are convicted of crimes related to their public duties.

Public employee pensions are back in the spotlight as several states try to change benefits for current and future retirees.

Among the findings: States will face continued pressure due to skyrocketing Medicaid costs, underfunded pensions for retired public employees and volatile tax revenues, as well as reduced federal funding.

Public pensions are being tightened in other states across the country where government employees, as in New York, receive far more generous retirement benefits than most private employees; many companies are eliminating pensions altogether.

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.

The remaining six weeks of the state Legislature's 2017 session is turning into a potential pension and benefit porkapalooza for public - employee unions — and even judges.

As CalWatchdog.com's Chris Reed argued, «That is good news for those considering taking on public employee unions in 2016 with ballot measures putting limits on government pensions or scrapping state laws allowing teachers to receive lifetime tenure after less than two years on the job.»

At the con - ConCon forefront are public employee labor unions which, as noted above, realistically worry that eliminating the constitutional prohibition on reducing state employee pensions will be a focus of a ConCon.

Traditional public employee pension programs in New York State have become unaffordable for taxpayers — while denying workers the ability to choose more flexible approaches to retirement planning.

It has overseen an explosion in the wage bill of the state, to the point where the average public - sector worker now earns # 74 more per week than a private - sector employee, as well as having much better pension and other entitlements.»

After holding it for four months, the state Senate has just sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a bill that would add hundreds of millions of dollars * to state and local pension costs by allowing public employees to claim pension service credit for time spent in peacetime military duty.

Calling it an «oppressive unfunded mandate» that would impose $ 57 million in «near term obligations» on local governments across New York State, Governor Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have allowed public employees to claim up to three years worth of pension service credit for time spent in military duty.

The reduced contribution rate — good news for local governments that pay into the state pension system for their public employees — was long anticipated from DiNapoli.