Sentences with phrase «state workers still»
Meanwhile, state workers still making $ 12 an hour in many jobs.
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Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.
The only problem is that it's still legal to fire LGBT employees in 28 states where such workers aren't covered by state laws that protect various minorities from discrimination on the job, as well as in housing and public accommodations.
The Minister of State for Finance has rejected consideration of these proposals, arguing that the economy is still too fragile and that higher contribution rates would kill jobs and result in lower disposable income for workers.
Drawing together Ukrainians of all ages and backgrounds — old women on puny state pensions and tech - savvy teenagers still in high school, university intellectuals and street-wise factory workers, Ukrainian - speakers and Russian - speakers — the Maidan soon became a self - organizing civil society.
(CNN)- The fervent instinct for social action that energized Jewish - Americans when they fought for workers» rights and civil rights, rallied for the creation of a Jewish state, and battled all sorts of bigotry throughout the 20th century still percolates.
In the United States, blue - collar workers still feel discarded.
Walter still questions why a source told City and State that the target of the investigation was a «recently» terminated county worker.
The state rules are still being formulated and might apply to more workers.
The number of state workers who earned a salary and a pension last year plummeted 44 percent, but there were still 48 people who raked in more than $ 200,000 from double dipping, state records show.
The Deputy Minister, Freda Prempeh has directed Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) to ensure retired government workers who are still occupying state bungalows hand them over to new recruits.
«Our economy has rebounded tremendously from the Great Recession, but thousands of workers across the state are still dealing with stagnant wages that do not reflect the cost of living in New York,» said Engel.
You're sitting there with YOUR state pension criticizing everyone ELSE with a state pension or workers still in public service.
A decade after his autistic son died at the hands of a care worker, Michael Carey says the state still isn't doing enough to protect its most vulnerable citizens.
Still, whatever the grumblings, Mr. Cuomo's strategy has largely worked: He has avoided taking positions on controversial issues, even as the state, facing a large budget gap, grapples with the prospects of laying off state workers, raising taxes or eliminating programs.
And there's still no agreement yet whether to include workers who get tips, like wait servers, in the plan for a three year phase in of increases to the state's minimum wage.
If the state worker is still liable in harassing a subordinate, the state is liable.»
They tell us to blame the unemployed, the disabled, public sector workers, Trade Unions and immigrants for the state the country is in and time and again, people fall for it and still end up questioning why their lives continue to stink, whilst looking for another demographic to blame for their plight.
The law doesn't extend to state workers, which means people like prison seamstress Joyce Mitchell and the former Warren County IT worker who got nabbed for pilfering laptops from the state last month will still be eligible to cash out.
The governor's top aide, Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch, later issued a statement saying Walker would comply with Sumi's order and halt preparations that were under way to begin deducting money from most public workers» paychecks, but that the governor's administration still believes the law took effect after a state office unexpectedly published online.
State workers who are still on the payroll also are being compensated under the settlement in the form of extra days of vacation or personal leave.
An angry Governor Paterson, still fuming after a judge blocked him from furloughing state workers in an attempt to save the state's budget, put a risky (if jesting) offer on the table.
Among the unions still aligned with the minor but influential third party are the Communications Workers of America and the state Nurse's Association, which are supporting Sanders, and SEIU 32BJ and the state teachers union, which are with Clinton.
Gov. David Paterson said today he's moving ahead with plans to lay off 898 state workers before the end of the year — fewer than the 2,000 he initially said would be necessary to make the $ 250 million worthy of workforce savings in the current budget, but still enough to be «painful.»
Wisconsin's measure exempts local police, firefighters and the State Patrol and still lets workers collectively bargain their wages as long as they are below inflation.
Omisore said, «God used some of us to put smiles in the faces of the workers of the state in the past, am very sure He will still use us at this trying period of the working class.
While all of these workers are still on the state payroll, official unemployment will not increase as a result of the furloughs.
ALBANY — Gov. - elect Andrew Cuomo made news earlier this week when he visited the empty Tryon Residential Center for Boys and decried the fact that there were still 30 state workers there, although there had been no youths in the Johnstown youth prison since July.
Though perhaps still best known for her work as a headstrong teen on TV series The United States of Tara, her central turn in Dustin Cretton's slice of youth social worker life will soon become the go - to product when her name comes up in conversation.
Many workers have migrated from a different state, and still others have immigrated to the United States from abroad; both of these groups will tend to differ in their cognitive skills from those who remain in a state after finishing their education.
By 2009, only one in five private - sector workers had access to a DB plan, compared to 89 percent of teachers and 84 percent of all state and local government employees who are still enrolled in one.
Still, that transition could take place over decades, as current workers gradually age into retirement, and states could instead phase in changes slowly over time.
Even if Janus flies and teachers and other government workers are no longer compelled to pay anything to the union, they will still be forced to be represented by the union in most states.
Teresa Picon, a psychology social worker for the state of New York, still rises willingly at 5 a.m. on weekends after the subtle barks of her Pomeranians, who insist upon adherence to routine.
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The process of degrading science into a state controlled pseudo-scientific faith has turned whole institutions into bastions of Lysenkoism where workers, researchers, teachers and bureaucrats toil in a climate of cultural terror and oppression, at least, for anyone who can still think outside the orthodox frame.
Workers in many occupations can and do still experience asbestos exposure in Louisiana and in the United States.
The Meredith principles (no - fault compensation, collective liability, security of payment, exclusive jurisdiction and administration by independent boards) became the basis for workers» compensation systems in Canada and the United States and still remain so today.
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Still, you'll feel amazed by knowing the number of unemployed workers in the United States.
Still considering in many ways that the parent was responsible for the current state or status of the young person, the role of the Child and Youth Care worker as educator was to help the parents change their own problematic behaviours in relation to the young person.