Archive for February 4th, 2010

employees, amid warnings of a severe budget shortfall that could cause hundreds of layoffs later this year. The cuts were to departments headed by elected officials, including Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., and were done as alternatives to the 12 unpaid

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government. Illinois now has one of the smallest state work forces in the nation. Proposals to make spending cuts will only result in degradation. Basic services including public health, education, housing, transportation and law enforcement would see 50

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3: I am thankful that at least the one levy passed, but I am also worried about job cuts for our teachers and cuts in our student programs. Miamisburg schools are great, and, my opinion is, if you can afford a $100,000 home, how?s $16 extra in

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cut staff and reduce wages costs. Many pharmacists in Australia would be unaware that there is no minimum wage for individual professions in many countries. There is only the protection of overall minimum wage. The following global snapshot of work

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we are all trying to improve our districts.' 'We're better off to know the dollar amount of cuts, and let each district decide how to do it,' said Walt Rulffes, Ph. D., superintendent of the Clark County School District. As a preliminary estimate,

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Globe and Mail
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />CIBC chief executive took 2009 pay cut, bank says
Reuters
... changed the way it pays its top officers to make compensation subject less to short-term market movements and cut...
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One of the country's largest local authorities is proposing major cuts in its parks service

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Fort Mill school district officials are considering budget cuts for next school year that include trimming school supplies, charging students more to enroll and eliminating 36 jobs. Those could be among a gaggle of measures the school district enacts

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has been under pressure for some time to cut its prices. Wholesale prices ? the prices the companies pay to buy gas to sell on to customers ? have fallen by 60% since they peaked in September 2008, but energy companies have only cut standard prices

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AFP
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />NFLPA Director Says Lockout Looms
OregonLive.com
... said the owners have asked the players to accept an 18 percent pay cut that would reduce the percentage of league revenues going to the...
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MARTIN WALL Industry Correspondent THE GOVERNMENTS controversial U-turn on pay cuts for top public servants followed strong lobbying by their staff association that any cuts should take account of money lost as a result of the abolition of a bonus

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Fuqua Building Systems, which makes modular homes, announced they're laying off 28 employees. The company says the cuts are a result of the recession along with a weak housing market. The plant will now build fewer homes a week. Employees who weren't

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WASHINGTON The House of Representatives voted 233-187 Thursday to approve tough new restrictions on future spending and tax cuts, but the changes are highly unlikely to reduce record federal budget deficits anytime soon. The vote for a system called

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the action Thursday, after the City Council voted unanimously a day earlier to postpone any action on job cuts for 30 days while they explore other options. Villaraigosa says his move will strengthen the city's credit rating and its long-term fiscal

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A deeply divided Parlier Unified School District board has given its superintendent a nearly 12% raise in salary and benefits in the midst of severe budget cuts and teacher layoffs. The board approved a new contract for Superintendent Henry 'Rick'

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FURIOUS council workers in Clackmannanshire facing pay cuts of thousands of pounds are refusing to sign up to a new single status agreement. Many employees also refuse to believe that the slashing of their salaries is unrelated

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the action Thursday, after the City Council voted unanimously a day earlier to postpone any action on job cuts for 30 days while they explore other options. Villaraigosa says his move will strengthen the city's credit rating and its long-term fiscal

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for every cut to be restored," O'Keeffe said. "We're asking for a fraction of the cuts to be restored." Under the current plans, successful passage of an override would mean an additional $537,000 in revenue for the town, which would bring next year's

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job as president and chief operating officer of Gannett Co., Gracia Martore got a bump in her base salary to $950,000 from the $700,000 she made as CFO. But in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Thursday, Gannett said,' Ms. Martore has

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Austin American-Statesman
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Dispute on dividing riches could shut down NFL in 2011
AFP
"It makes it very difficult to come to players to say they each need to take a 340000-dollar pay cut."...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />PCS in strike vote as other unions accept pay cut
Tribune (blog)
Civil servants across Britain will vote from this week on strike action over cuts to their redundancy pay. But the Public and Commercial ...
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just in time. The department expects 75 retirements in 2010 and 2011 and with Toledo asking for 10-percent pay and pension cuts, costing each officer around $10,000 apiece, many may jump to other Ohio cities. Wagner says, "It's an easy decision for those

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city passed a $91.1 million budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year that represented nearly $3 million in cuts and used $1.1 million borrowed from the city's rainy day reserve fund. A firm called Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates conducted the

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dire budget year. Teachers and employees in Oregon City, Gladstone and North Clackamas already took some sort of pay cut or pay freeze last year. ?The difficult question we now face is how to make more budget reductions,? said North Clackamas School

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LONG BEACH - Budget cuts to Long Beach Unified School District's adult education programs may result in higher class fees and fewer course offerings next academic year, district officials said. Two programs - the

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after being presented with two budget cutting proposals to the K through 12 educational system. These are drastic cuts that state superintendents attending the Interim Finance Committee meeting are having a hard time accepting, according to a News 4

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Pompey keeper James: Wage rise would be taking the p***!

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All of  the UH coaches have been asked to take voluntary 5 percent pay cuts. There will be no penalty if they decline. Also, because the pay cut would be handled through personnel officers, athletic department administrators would not know who

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MS (WMC-TV) - DeSoto County schools superintendent Milton Kuykendall says he is taking a ten percent reduction in salary and other district employees can expect cuts of about eight percent. Kuykendall says the school board took the action to address

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Cuts to School Budget, but Raise for Administrators. Seriously? Schools, posted by Frustrated Parent, a resident of Moss Beach, 16 minutes ago I am writing in regards to the proposed salary

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2011 is $546.6 million, which is about $26 million lower than the fiscal 2010 total. The major cuts would be a 3 percent pay cut for employees at grade 43 and below, including teachers, and a 4 percent pay cut for employees at grade 44 or higher,

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Globe and Mail
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />CIBC chief executive took 2009 pay cut, bank says
Reuters
TORONTO, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM.TO) slashed its chief executive's compensation last year, reflecting the...
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The Business of Sports (blog)
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />NFL union leader expects 2011 work stoppage
Chicago Tribune
Titans center Kevin Mawae, the NFLPA players representative, complained about a league making "$8 billion asking its employees to...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Budget shortfall puts shorter school days, teacher pay cuts on table
Las Vegas Sun
If the district were to eliminate the four days it currently sets aside for professional development, it would be the equivalent of a 2 percent pay cut...
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CBC.ca
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />CIBC boss takes pay cut ? to $6.2M
CBC.ca
Shareholders will be allowed to vote on a non-binding resolution on executive pay. (CBC) "This reflects both the change to our compensation framework...
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were in dire straits, but things arent looking very bright at the moment were trying to spread the cuts as evenly as possible, Thayer said. City Councilman Svante Myrick 09 (D-4th Ward) painted a slightly sunnier picture, stressing that the city did not

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With talk of cutting programs that make it bearable to go to school for students, pay cuts should also be on the table. Some of the cuts proposed by Fairfax County Public Schools might sound like they would not affect learning very much. Freshman sports,

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The purpose of the study session was to examine funds, pay and all available options for saving in the year and years to come. This included mulling over busing routes, student athletics, staff reorganization, salary cuts, paycut days, something that

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if you thought things are back to those good old boom years when you could negotiate a better pay package from your existing employer with three job offers in your pocket. India Inc is now wiser after the lessons learnt during the slowdown. True,

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