Sentences with phrase «support staff cuts»

According to Unison's poll, 74 per cent of respondents said support staff cuts had resulted in them having to work additional, unpaid hours.

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She was sticking to the questions her staff had prepared for her (generally good practice for freshman senators when talking to Greenspan), when all of a sudden she thought she had this brilliant insight that would support her position that tax cuts are bad.

Struggling to support goals that included beating Elon Musk's Tesla Motors in premium EV making, Jia has been trying to ride out the cash crunch by taking measures such cutting staff numbers and selling assets.

The cuts at the unit of Koch Industries Inc, the industrial conglomerate of billionaire conservatives Charles and David Koch, affected traders and support staff in its United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Singapore offices.

At my university, we've already had announcements that 30 faculty and 50 support staff will be cut, and these are likely to be mainly women.»

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

VICTORIA — Worsening B.C. Liberal neglect and staff cuts at the B.C. Conservation Officer Service have pushed recreational fishers into donating $ 100,000 to support enforcement of freshwater poaching laws.

The Staff Scientist will conduct scientific research, analysis, and preparation of publications in support of cutting - edge sustainability strategies, standards, and projects that the Rainforest Alliance carries out in pursuit of its mission.

Project Enlightenment offers parents of kids with special needs a place to find support and help even as it deals with funding and staff cuts.

Business would also be wise to support parents of young children seeking part - time work since research demonstrates that family - flexibility has pay - backs by cutting sickness rates and improving staff retention, loyalty and productivity.»

Whilst it is highly commendable and reassuring that the UK healthcare system has made such progress with implementing the Baby Friendly standards, recent staff shortages in maternity services, cuts to health visiting services and de-commissioning of voluntary sector support undermine this success.

Faced with 25,000 job cuts civilian staff in the MoD are doing a vital job in supporting the military here in the UK and in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Refuges were cutting down on staff numbers and having to turn women with complex needs away because they just did not have the resources to support them.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

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Donohue said instead of cutting resources to teachers and support staff who keep schools running, the state would be better off eliminating the financial perks school districts have been lavishing on law firms they hire to represent them against their workers.

«Who will provide the specialist support and training schools need to deliver this provision, given that local authorities and the NHS no longer have the specialist staff and resources to provide this support thanks to savage cuts to their budgets?

Thousands of teachers, lecturers and support staff will be visiting Parliament tomorrow (Wednesday, 26 October) to lobby their MPs about pension cuts in the education sector.

These cuts — along with reductions being implemented around the state because of the new, horrific tax cap — are resulting in a new round of program cuts as well as reductions in teaching staff and support personnel.

With the city Education Department announcing layoffs of some 800 support staff, including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, bus coordinators and others, UFT Secretary Michael Mendel joined City Councilman Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquarters.

Critics of the layoffs said savings could better come from eliminating consultant contracts, and that cutting support staff would disproportionately affect workers and schoolchildren in high - needs areas.

He called on local authorities to cut spending and waste, and criticised the trade unions representing local authority staff for failure to support modernisation.

Cuomo's campaign staff did not provide examples Thursday of any specific budget cuts Cuomo supports.

First, because DOE funds some academic modelers and staff at NCAR, scientists worried that the announcement of the new model meant that DOE would cut its financial support for CESM.

Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said: «Support staff are feeling the brunt of school cuts as schools struggle to make ends meet.

Going the extra mile to provide hands - on experiences for our students, providing lunch time and after school support, connecting science to the cutting edge are just some of the things the science staff do at Town High.

Dave Prentis, Unison general secretary, said: «School support staff are among the UK's lowest paid workers, yet they are paying the price of continued government spending cuts.

«Their promise to lift their own cap on public sector pay is meaningless without new, ring - fenced funding to ensure that teachers, as well as support staff, can finally get a real pay rise after years of cuts.»

A poll by public service Unison has found that 47 per cent of respondents to a poll report that support staff have been cut in last year as funding has become tight.

Ideas to save money include shortening the school day as they can not afford to pay staff to teach lessons for a whole week, and other proposals include cutting teaching and support jobs and increasing class sizes while reducing the curriculum.

The school's budget targets have resulted in 23 administrative and support staff being cut, 23 teachers have decided to resign, in addition to four voluntary redundancies and one compulsory redundancy,

Teaching assistants are putting in nearly four hours of unpaid overtime each week, and with increasing cuts in school support staff numbers, the situation can only get worse.»

«Every day we support education professionals who are suffering the consequences of many factors causing severe pressure: budget cuts; fewer staff, bigger class sizes and localised recruitment and retention difficulties in some areas are adding to workload and increasing stress levels.

Support staff that administer medicines and conduct criminal record checks are amongst those being cut, which could risk pupil safety.

The survey, which was conducted by The Key, a support organisation for school leaders, has revealed that more than two - thirds (68 per cent) of schools facing budget cuts across England plan to reduce their number of support staff.

Jon Richards, Unison's head of education, said: «This paints a grim picture of the way cuts and a general lack of cash are having a huge effect on school support staff.

In addition, the data shows 57 per cent of respondents reported cuts in classroom - related support staff posts.

Budget cuts have slashed resources and support staff this year, and administrators are feeling hopeless — and some of their jobs on the line.

Budget cuts, rising class sizes and the cutting of specialist support services are leading to increases in physical and verbal abuse against staff, according to NASUWT.

Six out of ten are cutting back on the hours worked by support staff.

Over 70 per cent of secondary school leaders say that their schools has had to cut teachers over the last year, with a similar proportion saying the same about teaching assistants or support staff.

School support staff such as teaching assistants and school administrators are working overtime as a result of increasing workloads and cuts to school staff, new research shows.

To support these students, staff need regular updates to their training and we have evidence that this is also being cut.

Without increased funding schools will have to continue cutting the number of support staff, which leaves vulnerable children with less support and further increases teachers» workloads.»

While primary school heads were much less likely to report that their school had got rid of teaching staff (21 %), over half (54 %) still said their teaching assistants had been cut and over a quarter (29 %) said their support staff had been cut back.

Teaching assistants, school administrators and other support staff are having to work overtime to cope with the increasing workload as schools cut staffing to cope with budget cuts, according to a Nat...

Schools Week reported in March that the David Ross Education Trust was consulting on plans to cut up to 40 support staff jobs across its schools.

Teaching assistants, school administrators and other support staff are having to work overtime to cope with the increasing workload as schools cut staffing to cope with budget cuts, according to a National Education Union survey released today by the ATL section of the union at its annual conference in Liverpool.

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The cut in support staff places more pressure on the workload of the remaining support staff.