Sentences with phrase «than private sector employees»

In Ontario, public sector employees earn more than private sector employees.

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Diamonte serves on the board for the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, representing more than 100 of the country's largest private - sector retirement funds on fiduciary and investment issues in Washington.

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criPrivate and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criprivate and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

«Through the defendants» activities, the Mabna Institute stole more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from universities, and email accounts of employees at private sector companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations,» according to the indictment.

The most recent ADP payroll report, for instance, saw businesses with fewer than 50 employees add 84,000 workers in June, or 45 percent of the 188,000 total private - sector jobs added in the month.

The Update incorporates the October average private sector economic forecasts and an increased «adjustment for risk» for 2011 - 12 to 2013 - 14, as well as an increase in employment insurance rates of only 5 cents (employee rate) for 2012, rather than the 10 cents set in legislation As a result, the balanced budget target is delayed from 2014 - 15 to 2016 - 17, prior to the inclusion of the Targeted Strategic and Operating Review Savings (now called «Deficit Reduction Action Plan Saving Target»).

In the United States last year, close to 20 percent of private - sector employees owned stock, and 7 percent held stock options, in the companies where they worked, while about one - third participated in some kind of cash profit - sharing and one - fourth in gain - sharing (when workers get additional compensation based on improvement on a metric other than profits, like sales or customer satisfaction).

They blame this increase in spending on local government compensation for municipal employees which they claim is significantly higher than for comparable jobs in the private sector.

But rather than supporting the idea that all Canadians should have comfortable retirements — say, by reforming CPP, and protecting private sector employees against company bankruptcy — the authors see public sector pensions as just more «premium.»

In fact the clear message from the Fraser Institute is that public sector employees should receive no more total compensation than their private - sector equivalents.

Some folks have no pensions; some have a defined contribution plan, which depends on the market; others, including most public employees and more than half of the private - sector ones have a defined benefits plan — you get a guaranteed pension based upon years of service.

Today, less than 15 % of private sector employees are covered by DB plans.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer.

Around 11,000 businesses are now owned in whole or part by their employees, involving 10 million workers — three million more than are members of private sector unions.

At the hearing, Governor Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, told lawmakers that the Tier VI proposal's defined contribution plan, which would be similar to the TIAA - CREF plan now offered to employees at the State university system, is more generous than almost anything in the private sector.

A recent study by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the National Institute on Retirement Security finds that when such factors as education and work experience are accounted for, state and local employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector workers.

And dollar for dollar, college educated government employees make less than their private sector counterparts.

Beginning April 1, 2014, private sector employees of businesses with more than 20 people can earn up to 40 hours of paid leave a year.

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.»

The school boards group also urges a statewide freeze on government salaries - which would save billions without laying off a single employee or cutting back a single service - and requiring all workers to pay at least 10 % of their health insurance costs, which is less than most private - sector workers shell out.

The bill would make sure that retirement plans of federal workers are not taxed differently than those of private sector employees.

A Government plan to ban public sector bosses from getting paid more than 20 times the salary of their lowest paid employee should be extended to the private sector, he said in an interview with the Yorkshire Post.»

County Executive Joanie Mahoney says that reflects a changing trend in contracts for government employees, who traditionally were paid less than private sector counterparts, but had better benefits packages.

It's true that teachers work about 40 fewer days per year than private - sector employees.

Pension benefits for public school teachers (and most public employees) are far more generous than for private sector professionals.

Second, public educators are less sensitive to competitive threats than are private - sector employers and employees.

Nonetheless, as Figure 3 also indicates, a larger share of school employees who were working in 2008 were still on the job in 2012 than the share of workers still employed in the private sector in 2012.

In other words, Ohanian thinks you could use job security as a means of attracting employees into the public sector even if you offered salaries roughly 10 % lower than in the private sector because the job security itself has some value.

Specifically, POGO's study shows that the federal government approves service contract billing rates — deemed fair and reasonable — that pay contractors 1.83 times more than the government pays federal employees in total compensation, and more than 2 times the total compensation paid in the private sector for comparable services.

Public employees earn less on average than their counterparts in the private sector, so job benefits like pensions are a proven way to recruit top talent.

He concluded «employees in the public sector are paid more than is publicly acknowledged and, in many instances, more than their private - sector counterparts.»

Since most CSRS employees have less than 20 substantial years of private sector earnings their benefit was reduced by $ 413 if they retired in 2015.

Yet the typical Wisconsin public sector employee with a bachelor's degree makes less than $ 62,000, compared to more than $ 82,000 in the private sector, Pollack said.

Public employee unions maintain retirement benefits far larger than those received by most private sector workers (and taxpayers).

It is worth noting that Bill 203 applies to private and public sector employers, and imposes wider obligations than does Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, which requires public sector employers to make public the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $ 100,000 or more in the previous calendar year.

The code also stipulated that private sector providers of outsourced services had to employ transferring employees on their existing terms and conditions (including protection in relation to pension benefits) and that new personnel who were required to work on a local authority contract alongside staff transferred from the local authority should be employed on terms «overall no less favourable» than those enjoyed by the transferred staff.

There are estimated to be 9,000 private employers who are obliged to publish their results in addition to the numerous public sector employers who have more than 250 employees.

Companies with fewer than 500 employees provide jobs to 45 percent of the state's private - sector labor force.

What's more, data from Aon Hewitt, the human resources and consulting company, shows government employees are both passively and actively looking for a new job at a slower rate than in the private sector.