Sentences with phrase «wage freezes in»

The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority imposed a controversial wage freeze in April.

NIFA took control of the county's finances in January 2011 and imposed the wage freeze in March 2011, after winning a court challenge by Mangano to the control period.

Not exact matches

She cut spending in the budgets to below the levels of inflation plus population, strong - armed teachers and doctors into taking wage freezes.

«Circuit breakers» — in the form of a wage freeze.

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-...]

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.

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.

Donohue has been very outspoken during this budget battle, issuing some memorable zingers directed at Gov. David Paterson in response to the governor's efforts to get the public employee unions to agree to concessions such as furloughs or a wage freeze that he says would help close the budget deficit.

Souring the perception of Martins is the strange odor coming from a scheme by Deputy County Executive Rob Walker to award the county's Civil Service Employees Association $ 5 million of the $ 10 million in pay it claims it's owed in the aftermath of a wage freeze, and a guarantee of no layoffs in 2018.

To the extent that conservatives succeed in reducing fiscal woes to a case of runaway spending, politicians find it easier to address budget shortfalls with public sector furlough days, wage freezes, layoffs and benefit cuts than with progressive tax increases that, many economists conclude, would cause the least harm to the recovery.

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.

«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.

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.

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

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 BuffalIn 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 Buffalin 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.»

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.

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.

Fields, 64, who has been endorsed by the union in past elections, angered the organization earlier this year with her proposal that teachers across the state reopen their contracts and agree to a wage freeze to help close the state budget deficit.

In Nassau, officials attributed the historically high overtime costs to staffing needs after a wave of officers retired in recent years and were not immediately replaced as the county negotiated new labor contracts following a three - year wage freezIn Nassau, officials attributed the historically high overtime costs to staffing needs after a wave of officers retired in recent years and were not immediately replaced as the county negotiated new labor contracts following a three - year wage freezin recent years and were not immediately replaced as the county negotiated new labor contracts following a three - year wage freeze.

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.

Cuomo has assumed $ 450 million worth of workforce savings in his 2011 - 2012 executive budget and has instituted a wage freeze (something he pledged to do during the campaign in his «New NY Agenda»).

The governor announced earlier this month that Council 82 agreed to cuts in health care benefits, wage freezes and additional concessions that avoided layoffs.

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.

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 201In 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 201in 2011.

Such freezes have survived repeated federal and state court challenges by unions — including, most recently, a lawsuit filed by Nassau County unions in the wake of a three - year wage freeze that ended in 2014.

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.

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.

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...

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.»

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.

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.

The last contract expired in July 2004, months after the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority enacted a wage freeze, which the union challenged in court.

Remaining federal stimulus funding and rainy - day reserves in many districts could absorb the education cuts, Cuomo said, as well as wage freezes or benefit contributions.

But U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert ruled that, «in declaring a fiscal crisis and imposing the wage freeze, NIFA did not create a «new rule,» but merely exercised authority delegated to it by the [county] legislature in 2000.

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

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.

The bad feelings only intensified during a protracted contract negotiation process in 2011 that resulted in a three - year wage freeze.

In fact, many of these other teachers lived in districts that were increasing tax levies by just one and two percent (and where teachers were taking wage freezes!In fact, many of these other teachers lived in districts that were increasing tax levies by just one and two percent (and where teachers were taking wage freezes!in districts that were increasing tax levies by just one and two percent (and where teachers were taking wage freezes!).

They lived in districts that were increasing tax levies by one and two percent (where teachers were taking wage freezes!)

Districts also utilized other tools, including wage freezes, switching to higher - deductible health plans, and adjustments in salary schedules to help tighten finances in their schools.

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.

«But I think coming in here with a wage freeze is attacking the problem with a club.»

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.