Sentences with phrase «way state employees»

«Hopefully it will lead to broad - based changes in the way state employees are compensated,» she said.

Not exact matches

State pension funds, facing a potential multitrillion - dollar shortfall, find themselves in the center of a four - way battle: Employees and retirees expect to be paid their promised benefits; the pension systems have clear obligations but may not have the resources to pay them; politicians are looking for ways to resolve the underfunding and balance the burden among retirees and workers; and state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax State pension funds, facing a potential multitrillion - dollar shortfall, find themselves in the center of a four - way battle: Employees and retirees expect to be paid their promised benefits; the pension systems have clear obligations but may not have the resources to pay them; politicians are looking for ways to resolve the underfunding and balance the burden among retirees and workers; and state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax state taxpayers, challenged to provide for their own retirements, resent the additional tax load.

As it is, 1,000 full - time employees in the United States and Canada surveyed by Virgin Pulse in 2015 rated work - life balance as the number one way companies can show employees they care; 40 percent said they wished their employers cared more about this balance.

Further, it was stated that he wasn't terminated (or demoted) for his views, but the harassing and overbearing way he pushed them on his fellow employees.

I don't get it... we re supposed to have a seperation of church and state in our politics yet we find that our political world is constantly guided by flawed religious beliefs... now religious beliefs are creeping into the workplace, at what point would someone possibly be denied a job because a perspective employer finds out that a perspective employees religious beliefs don't follow the employers... sorry guys religion doesn; t belong in politics or the workplace in any way, shape or form.

One way Chinn rewards employee longevity and hard work is to bring a group of them with him to his second home state.

For example if AW had his way the team would not be in the States right now, but there are a lot of decisions that go above his head (even if we try to portray him as some Arsenal demigod) Fact is, he is an employee of SK like everyone else.

Established to conduct the first large - scale experimental social research project in the United States, Mathematica's commitment to innovation drives us to develop new methods, explore emerging fields, and apply new technologies in ways our early employees could barely have imagined.

The Empire Center for New York Policy thinks it has found a legal way for the state to block contractually negotiated raises for public employees.

His particular way of working and dedication to the modern scientific method did not always go down well with all the centre's employees, and his political independence resulted in a state of disharmony, alienation and rivalry with political actors, which prompted him to submit his resignation in 1977.

«Our suggestions include ways to make state government more efficient by reducing the reliance on higher - priced private consultants and allowing state employees to do the work for less.

«When discussing our options under this requirement, we determined that the best way to minimize the impact on both our employees and our customers was to cease most State DMV office operations for one day,» said Swarts (the former Erie County clerk who has held his post since the Spitzer administration).

But the agency has consistently been used by Syracuse mayors, including Miner, as an «expedient» way to hire city employees - or in this case a private contractor — without going through the state civil service system or amending the city budget.

A federal judge has cleared the way for an employee at the state Office for People with Developmental Disabilities to continue a lawsuit in which he alleges he was targeted for speaking out about problems at facilities for the developmentally disabled.

«At a time when the Paterson administration is seeking to lay off rank and file state employees, there is no way this administration can justify this action,» said CSEA President Danny Donohue in a press release.

That law allowed for the pensions of subsequently elected legislators to be taken after a criminal conviction, and defined «public official» in a way that also included rank - and - file state employees but excluded police officers, firefighters and teachers.

Conversely, PEF is heavily composed of state employees and UUP members in the SUNY system have educational demographics that are way above CSEA's and generally so above NYSUT's and even PEF's (PEF has a big range between bachelor's degree and below to doctoral level and NYSUT generally requires a master's degree for tenure while UUP is generally a doctorate, at least at the four year institutions and above).

Shifting to a state payroll tax instead of an income tax is seen as one way to reduce employees» federal tax liability.

Most disturbing, Bharara said, was the «deafening silence» of the many elected officials and employees of state government who knew something was going wrong but looked the other way.

ALBANY, NY (03/01/2012)(readMedia)-- Dozens of members from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) lined the sidewalk in front of the state Office of Mental Health (OMH) at 44 Holland Ave. in Albany to protest the way the state is closing and shifting services in several state - operated psychiatric faciliState Public Employees Federation (PEF) lined the sidewalk in front of the state Office of Mental Health (OMH) at 44 Holland Ave. in Albany to protest the way the state is closing and shifting services in several state - operated psychiatric facilistate Office of Mental Health (OMH) at 44 Holland Ave. in Albany to protest the way the state is closing and shifting services in several state - operated psychiatric facilistate is closing and shifting services in several state - operated psychiatric facilistate - operated psychiatric facilities.

In a major blow to Gov. Chris Christie that complicates his 2016 ambitions, a New Jersey judge ruled that he violated state law when he declined to make the full payment into the state's pension system for public employees last year and ordered him to find a way to fund it now.

«The purpose of the council is to ask state employees to advise and make recommendations to the governor relating to employee / employer relations; to give front - line state employees a stronger voice in Frankfort; and to create a two - way communication mechanism between front - line state merit employees and the governor's office,» according to the state Personnel Cabinet website, which links to several public employee unions.

The budget backlash continues today as several groups representing education, public employees, and low - income New Yorkers bashed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, saying there are other ways to close the state's $ 10 billion gap without laying off workers or cutting from education and health care.

Also at 11 a.m., AARP will deliver 10,000 postcards to state legislative leaders and Cuomo urging them to include «Secure Choice» in the state budget to provide millions of private sector employees an effective way to save for retirement at work, outside the Senate chamber, 3rd floor, state Capitol, Albany.

The way I read it, the opinion had nothing to do with the Lobbying Law, but the restrictions on state employees after leaving state employment, so your headline mentioning the lobby law doesn't make sense.

Put another way, minorities accounted for only 35 out of 334 workers on the site from January through March this year, according to the state records.Twenty were Native Americans, who accounted for more than half of the minority employees.

In his State of the City speech Bloomberg said pension costs for all city employees — not just teachers — have increased 360 percent since he became mayor in 2002 and calculated that if the subway fare had increased a similar amount, it would now cost straphangers $ 7.05 — each way — to go to work.

On Thursday the state's Authorities Budget Office (ABO) said Syracuse should stop using its Urban Renewal Agency (SURA) as a backdoor way of hiring city employees.

Asked after if he felt the same way about Cuomo's approach to the creation of the new petition tier for future state employees — soemthing bitterly opposed by unions — de Blasio said his comments were specifically about Cuomo's style.

With the potential scandal evidently out of the way, perhaps the candidates will now focus on other differences between them: what effect, if any, the comptroller can have in navigating the state through this fiscal crisis and how to manage the huge state employee pension fund.

«One case, Godfrey v. Spano, stems from the Westchester County executive's 2006 decision to begin officially honoring out - of - state marriage licenses for gay couples the same way it did for heterosexual couples.The other case, Lewis v. New York State Department of Civil Service, was filed after the department agreed in 2007 to begin recognizing out - of - state, same - sex marriages for the purpose of extending health insurance to spouses of public employees.&rstate marriage licenses for gay couples the same way it did for heterosexual couples.The other case, Lewis v. New York State Department of Civil Service, was filed after the department agreed in 2007 to begin recognizing out - of - state, same - sex marriages for the purpose of extending health insurance to spouses of public employees.&rState Department of Civil Service, was filed after the department agreed in 2007 to begin recognizing out - of - state, same - sex marriages for the purpose of extending health insurance to spouses of public employees.&rstate, same - sex marriages for the purpose of extending health insurance to spouses of public employees.»

«No one has a big interest in the tax component,» one Albany insider said, adding that there was a growing belief in the state capitol that the tax increases were a surreptitious way of funding the city's looming public employee union contracts.

The idea, Cuomo said, is to recover more money employees were cheated out of when businesses went bankrupt — and went on to create spinoff limited liability companies registered in other states or hid their assets in other ways.

Through different recommended activities and push learning tools, mostly with regards to microlearning, employees receive suggestions on how to act in a way which is most reasonable in their own state, and which will improve their level and skills.

States simply can not offer these benefits and hence have no way to lower turnover among effective employees.

Moreover, the way that state and local governments calculate their pension contributions means that two employees receiving exactly the same benefits could be assigned very different pension compensations under Allegretto and Mishel's methodology.

In order to address that problem, Governor Dannel Malloy is proposing to dramatically change the way Connecticut funds its state employee pension system.

Requiring states and districts to provide information on the quality and extent of school choice options — including whether the districts have open enrollment policies and the number of seats actually available to families who are not teachers or school employees — would go a long way.

The charter schools model offers a community a way to create a school that often has lower operating costs than traditional schools — particularly for employee compensation — and greater flexibility in class offerings, all funded with federal start - up money and a large portion of the annual per - pupil payment from the state for public school students.

I'm disappointed to see, however, no mention of the main way in which education spending in the United States differs from many other nations: school budgets include all employee health care.

Justice, a Republican, has promised to convene a task force as early as this week to figure out a way to resuscitate the insurance agency, whose severe funding shortfalls have resulted in rising co-pays and other health - care costs not only for public - school teachers but also for state employees across the board.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, after a vote that would clear the way for a $ 26 billion measure to help states with their severe budget problems and save the jobs of tens of thousands of teachers and other public employees.

Having participated and watched government in action at the national, state and local level for more than four decades, I can safely say that I have never, ever, seen an meeting as unbelievably insulting as the «presentation» (PowerPoint and all) that those targeted local school administrators were forced to sit through or the even more incredible way in which public employees responded to a member of the public trying to raise important and legitimate concerns about the very issue that the school officials were summoned to the meeting to discuss.

Unfortunately, the State Department of Education has been unwilling to turn over a copy of the version on file at the Department so there is no way to know for sure, but a State Department of Education employee who claims to have seen the copy on file confirms that the restrictive language is gone, but also confirms that the copy that has been filed with the State Department of Education IS NOT the version approved by the Board of Education.

If Gov. Roy Cooper has his way, the average teacher will get an 8 percent raise next year, other state employees will get their biggest raise in a decade, and schools will get millions of dollars to upgrade security, buy supplies and hire new resource officers, nurses, counselors, social workers and psychologists.

The employees ask the court to freeze all activity regarding WGM in order to examine the state of the firm and the appropriate way to bring it back to healthy operations, in order to keep the business alive and help secure the jobs of its fifty employees.

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