Sentences with phrase «wage freeze on»

One suggestion made to the Town Board was to place an immediate hiring and wage freeze on all positions that were not bound by contractual obligations.

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 president of one of the state's most influential labor unions offered conditional support to the notion of wage freezes on Thursday, an idea supported by Andrew Cuomo, the front - runner in New York's upcoming gubernatorial race.

Not exact matches

While Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, he ran on a fiscally conservative platform that had more in keeping with the Senate Republicans» interests — property tax cap, public employee wage freeze, spending reductions — than the majority of Democrats (particularly those who hail from downstate) in the Senate and Assembly conferences.

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.

During an appearance on «Capital Tonight» last night, the Empire Center's EJ McMahon suggested there's a disconnect between the leaders of the state employee unions and their members and speculated that most of the rank and file would actually prefer a wage freeze over furloughs.

The response cites previous federal cases concerning wage freezes and furloughs on the municipal level in Baltimore, New York City, and Buffalo in times of fiscal crisis.

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.

Ditching the modest rise of the minimum wage, the freeze on energy prices or the tax on banker bonuses on the other hand might deprive the party of the few policies that are actually popular with voters.

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.

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.»

Nassau's financial control board is objecting to proposed state legislation that would allow the county's union employees to get contractual step increases — salary hikes based on years in the job — even during a wage freeze.

Gov. David Paterson this morning traded indirect barbs with PEF President Ken Brynien, all but accusing the labor leader of lying on the airwaves while defending labor's refusal to go along with furloughs, wage freezes and other cost - cutting proposals.

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.

Labour had good policies on many of these: raising the minimum wage, promoting the living wage, ending exploitative zero - hours contracts, freezing energy bills, funding the NHS and building 200,000 new homes each year.

«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.

And Cuomo has signaled a shift to the right, proposing wage freezes and tax caps and promising to take on the unions.

A source close to the mayor said: «It is impossible to justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on pensions at a time of severe public sector cuts and wage freezes.

I was the first candidate to talk about wage freezes, caps on spending and local property taxes, and redistricting reforms, and am glad to see that other candidates are embracing many of the same policies.

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.

In a letter to Kaiman on Friday, Mangano said he believes workers who can be hired and fired at will are not covered by the wage freeze NIFA imposed in 2011.

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.»

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.

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.

NIFA in 2011 imposed a wage freeze, which lasted three years, on all county unions.

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.

On a day when he revealed the economy would take a # 60 billion hit over the coming five years thanks Brexit, Mr Hammond did have some positive news - namely that fuel duty would be frozen and the National Living Wage increased.

Once you file a consumer proposal you are protected from wage garnishees, frozen bank accounts, and CRA can not register a lien on your house.

The judgment means the lender can then take additional steps against you, including wage garnishment, freezing your bank accounts, and putting liens on any property you own.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA or formally Revenue Canada) has the powers to force collections of tax related debts — including wage garnishments, freezing bank accounts, investment seizures; they may even register a lien on a residential home.

... as drafted, the proposed legislation not only sets the stage for across the board wage freezes and restrictions on individual salary movement within range, but is also broad enough to allow for compensation reductions as well as a host of changes to non-compensation provisions of collective agreements.

With job cuts looming all around and wage freezes becoming the norm, saving as much as possible on car insurance is imperative.