Sentences with phrase «take salary freezes»

After all, this is the governor who in the middle of cuts three years ago urged voters to reject school budgets if teachers wouldn't take salary freezes.

(During our budget debate the previous spring, my suggestion that we could save ten jobs if staff took a salary freeze was soundly defeated.

Not exact matches

It usually takes a few years from recession to governments realizing that they have no money and have to freeze public sector salaries e.g. the big hit on public sector salaries were in say 83, 84 after the recession of 80, Rae Days were in mid 1990s after the recession of 1990,91, etc..

It would not preclude the legislature or County Executive Steve Bellone, who has voluntarily frozen his salary since taking office, from proposing raises as part of the budget, on which lawmakers would have to vote.

«Upon lifting the wage freeze we took the opportunity to re-evaluate some employees» salaries and made increases where it was deemed appropriate or when someone had taken on new responsibilities,» she said.

The NIFA has given Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano until Feb. 15 to come back with new budget numbers and has so far taken a pass on freezing public employee salaries.

As he is poised to call for a one year «emergency» salary freeze for state workers, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to lead by example by announcing he will take a five percent pay cut himself.

Cuomo's take - no - prisoners speech yesterday and policy positions like a freeze on public employee salaries, a property tax cap and support for lifting the charter school cap have made certain segments of the labor community wary of him.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

McGrigors has announced a large - scale cost - cutting programme that will see partners taking a reduced share of the firm's profits, staff agreeing to unpaid leave, and a firmwide salary freeze.

Last month the Scottish firm announced a large - scale cost - cutting programme that will see partners taking a reduced share of the firm's profits, staff agreeing to unpaid leave, and a firmwide salary freeze.