Sentences with phrase «wage freeze for»

This is hardly surprising, but it's also worth noting that the WFP has agreed to embrace Cuomo's «New NY Agenda» — a condition laid out by the AG in order for him to accept the party's nod — which includes a property tax cap, creation of another pension tier and a wage freeze for public employees, among other proposals of which many unions (mostly the progressive and public sector types) aren't fond.

He's entering the fray from a strong position — President Obama ordered a wage freeze for federal workers in November, and many other governors are grappling with the same issue in order to breach their own budget gaps.

Levy went on to note that a number of the cost - saving measures Paterson says he supports, including the property tax cap and wage freeze for state employees (or, alternatively, layoffs), were not included in the governor's proposed budget.

PEF President Ken Brynien offered conditional support for Cuomo's proposed wage freeze for public employees.

First, Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak builds his whole campaign around a promise to create one million new jobs in Ontario over eight years, then one of his first campaign commitments threats  is to reduce the number of Ontario government employees by 100,000, together with a wage freeze for every -LSB-...]

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Kenneth Brynien, the president of the Public Employees Federation, said his group would support wage freezes for state employees provided that they are implemented «across the board.»

Not exact matches

If the deficit is due to an economic recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product, or to «extraordinary events», such as a natural disaster or war, that results in an «cost» of more than $ 3 billion, then the operating budgets of departments and agencies would be automatically frozen to pay for any wage increases.

Prior to this plan being frozen, participants received «pay credits» which varied with age and years of service (points) and differed for pay above and below the taxable wage base.

This is because of the innane way health insurance is paid for to get around wage freezes years ago, but the idea that this is the company's money makes no more sense than if the company wanted to dictate what brand of toothpaste you would buy with your salary.

Specifically, they oppose education cuts (76 - 22) and Medicaid cuts (64 - 32), but support reductions for state workers — from pension reform to wage freezes and furloughs — and are split on layoffs.

It might be tough for them to do so, especially if they're holding out hope of landing the Working Families Party line, since Cuomo's agenda includes a number of initiatives labor unions dislike — including the tax cap and a public employee wage freeze.

About 170,000 and 80,000 children will fall below the MIS due to slow wage growth, and the pay freeze and cap for public employees, respectively.

«Such a precedent - setting alteration of NIFA's wage freeze authority would likely open the door for similar statutory modifications to the other presently governing control boards in the state, and curtail the abilities of any new control board that may need to be created in the future,» Cuomo wrote.

Horsley, who is paid at the 2012 level for deputy presiding officer — $ 104,400 — sponsored the wage - freeze measure.

Legislators who voted for the wage freeze program and followed through by turning down their raises were: Cilmi; Kate Browning (WF - Shirley); Kara Hahn (D - Setauket); Wayne Horsley (D - Babylon); and Steve Stern (D - Dix Hills), for total savings of $ 14,000.

Tom Cilmi (R - Bay Shore), who voted for the wage freeze and has turned down his raises since taking office in 2010.

For Labour, the lock of responsibility liberated Miliband to pursue his campaign to address social inequality with a series of commitments on the minimum wage, zero - hours contracts, freezes on energy prices, a cap on train fares and extra investments on the NHS.

In that case, renewed short - term borrowing can provide another impetus for the kind of state - imposed wage freeze that accompanied past fiscal «emergencies» in New York City and Buffalo.

The move is likely to come with an exemption for farmers and a measure that would freeze the minimum wage in case of an economic downturn.

On the other extreme, in a December 2010 award to the union representing St. Lawrence County sheriff's deputies, an arbitration panel chairman faulted the county's leaders for seeking a wage and benefit freeze from deputies without seeking «even a small sacrifice from County taxpayers or other groups.»

The governor also called on teachers to accept temporary wage freezes and to increase their share of health benefit costs while blasting school administrators for making more than he does.

The average pay hike exceeded contractual raises for Nassau's union employees negotiated under labor deals reached in 2014 after a three - year wage freeze.

With New York facing a similarly large $ 10 billion deficit in early 2011, the new governor locked in a three - year wage freeze on base salaries for 66,000 members of the Civil Service Employees Association.

The governor negotiated a contract with the Public Employees Federation that included a three - year wage freeze and furlough days, along with givebacks for health care.

Nassau's financial control board has pushed off for at least a week approval of proposed new union contracts that would lift a three - year wage freeze.

The minimum wage increased from # 6.08 to # 6.19 for those aged over 21 last October, but was frozen for those aged 18 to 20 at # 4.98.

The manifesto promises to continue the freeze of council tax, deliver free nursery hours for children, pay the living wage to council workers and keep free bus passes.

The wage deal is likely to come with an exemption for farmers and a measure that would freeze the minimum wage in case of an economic downturn.

The wage increase will not have special carve - outs for small businesses, but could have a «safety valve» to freeze implementation in the event of an economic downturn, Cuomo told reporters.

As I wrote in my DN column this morning, the teachers and the public employee unions aren't sold on Cuomo — largely due to proposals that are unpopular with the leadership like spending and property tax caps, wage freezes and support for charter schools.

But Kaiman acknowledged the wage freeze doesn't cover raises for new job titles.

For about three years, the MTA — following a pattern that Cuomo's administration sought from unions throughout the state — demanded that LIRR workers accept a five - year pact with three years of wage freezes and several other concessions.

For the state government alone, pay hikes guaranteed by the Triborough Amendment have cost $ 140 million a year, even after Governor Andrew Cuomo negotiated a wage «freeze» with state unions.

Such a precedent - setting alteration of NIFA's wage freeze ability would likely open the door for similar statutory modifications to the other presently - governing control boards in the State, and curtail the abilities of any new control board that mau need to be create din the future.

A state appeals court ruled that Nassau's financial control board has the authority to suspend contractual pay increases for county employees, and dismissed union challenges to a three - year wage freeze that ended in 2014.

perhaps David Cameron would be so good as to explain to the hardworking party workers, those that have lost their jobs, those that face a wage freeze, and importantly THOSE PEOPLE who have donated money just how this came about: - David Cameron has personally authorised up to # 2m of extra expenditures, none included in the budget for the year...

A uniformed - union leader who's since retired once recalled an early conversation with Governor Cuomo about what was in store for public employees at a time when Mr. Cuomo was leaning on state - employee unions to accept a three - year wage freeze and sizable increases in their health - care premiums.

The public employees unions are fighting Paterson's furlough plan in court and reacted very negatively to his call for a wage freeze.

Most also oppose layoffs for city workers, although those polled supported both furloughs and wage freezes.

The superintendent has called for salary cuts from teachers of 5 to 13 percent and a wage freeze through 2017.

This wage freeze has been extremely painful for the lowest - paid employees of Nassau.»

No. 5: Say's he's going to fight for working people and the middle class while he freezes wages and doesn't raise the minimum wage.

Klein, whose district spans portions of the Bronx and Westchester, uses the ad to play up his work on gun control, paid family leave, minimum wage increases, and rent freezes for senior citizens.

This request comes as the County is still calculating savings from early retirees, who are not required to state their intention to retire until early October, the fact that County Executive Picente is looking to work with unions to freeze wages for this coming year, and because of the need to plan for appropriate job losses in the event that the wage freeze proposal is not accepted.

NYSUT is big enough so that its active «no» vote on Cuomo would make it difficult for him to hit the threshold necessary to get the AFL endorsement, especially if the public employee unions, which are not pleased with the AG's proposed wage freeze and other parts of his «New NY Agenda» plan, also decided to oppose him.

While the plan called for a cut of 5.5 percent to education, dropping per - pupil funding by $ 550, funding limits could be offset at the district level by increased employee contributions to health care and pension programs, and by giving local school districts other tools such as wage freezes and adjustments in salary schedules.

Of course, the problem is even where teachers have agreed to a wage freeze you have increasing costs — without additional state aid — those extra dollars will have to come from the local property tax which is much more unfair for the middle class than raising money through the income tax (assuming you don't let the millionaires off the hook like the Governor did).

Over the past several budget years we have asked employees and unions for wage freezes or wage concessions and more than half of our staff has taken these.

One of the reasons behind this frozen market scenario is that the U.S. economy has been stuck in a vicious cycle: A slow moving housing market saps the economy's strength, and the ensuing weakness — high unemployment, slow wage growth — this all means that fewer people are leaving their parents home for one of their own.

Under a soft freeze, benefits typically are increased for wage growth, but not for additional service.