Sentences with phrase «year wage freeze»

Unionized county workers have offered a two - year wage freeze to avoid layoffs.

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

The ruling affirms a state court decision and probably ends a seven - year court battle over whether the three - year wage freeze violated the unions» constitutional rights.

Connecticut state employees could receive four years of full job security if they agree to concessions such as a two - year wage freeze, three furlough days and higher insurance premiums and pension contributions.

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.

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.

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.

Under Kaiman, the seven - member board worked more cooperatively with Mangano, lifting a three - year wage freeze and approving new labor contracts.

Nassau Interim Finance Authority chairman Jon Kaiman said Saturday the control board would hold a special meeting to consider halting raises that several elected officials recently gave their appointed staff members, despite a three - year wage freeze.

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 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.

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

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 freeze.

Getting a three year wage freeze while having your health costs doubled (at least) doesn't really sound like a good deal to me.

Not exact matches

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-...]

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.

The 26 - year - old Liverpool defender has been frozen out of Jürgen Klopp's plans and Anfield officials are desperately trying to get him off the wage bill before tonight's deadline.

ALBANY — While unionized state workers are getting hit with three years of wage freezes, and Gov. Cuomo and his top aides are taking 5 percent wage cuts, state Senate Republicans are doling out pay hikes to most of their Capitol staffers, The Post has learned.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* A salary and wage freeze through the life of the contract, with the exception of five year longevity increases or salary increases tied to job promotions

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...

His statement this weekend, at the Fabian conference, that he endorses Osborne's public sector wage freeze until the end of this Parliament — possibly 3.5 years away — and accepts all the government's spending cuts finally crosses a red line.

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.

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.

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.

The Coalition is hopeful that their recommendation for a substantial increase in the general minimum wage, which has been frozen for ten years and is now the lowest in the country, will be acted upon.

Especially in recent years it has been disconcerting to a lot of consumers to have to deal with these increases even in the face of high unemployment and wage cuts and freezes for those of us fortunate enough to still be working.