Posts Tagged ‘ Budget Cuts ’

Fisher ready to face school challenges

July 15, 2010
By Pay Cuts

have suffered budget challenges due to the lack of availability of state aid. The state has failed to pay South Beloit School District about $800,000, which has forced the district to make some budget cuts. Fisher said the lack of state payments has le...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

France Announces Budget Cuts — Just Don’t Call It Austerity (Time.com)

June 16, 2010
By Pay Cuts

years as the bulk of baby boomers retire out, leaving behind a workforce with fewer active workers to pay into the scheme. The measure will affect private- and public-sector employees alike - the latter fact ensuring that unions will be able to muster

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

How to fix a $152 million budget shortfall – Post-Bulletin

June 15, 2010
By Pay Cuts


<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />How to fix a $152 million budget shortfall
Post-Bulletin
Pay cuts: Faculty and staff are taking a temporary, 1.15 percent pay cut, and twice that for senior administrators. Hourly workers must take a three-day ...
Standing up...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Greece says market speculation could derail austerity

June 14, 2010
By Pay Cuts

GENEVA (Reuters) - Financial market speculators could derail the economic gains made from tough budget cuts and other austerity measures hurting workers most, Greece's labour minister said on Monday. Andreas Loverdos, in a speech to the International

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

British defence min paves way for spending cuts

June 14, 2010
By Pay Cuts

Source: Reuters * Defence min warns of big long-term defence budget cuts * Urges patience, Britain to hold nerve in Afghanistan war By Mohammed Abbas LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - Britain's new defence

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Social service ?agencies seek to minimize budget cuts

June 14, 2010
By Pay Cuts

McHenry County social service agency officials say proposed cuts in the state budget could mean a loss of at least $2.8 million more locally

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

No more school budget cuts

June 12, 2010
By Pay Cuts

Dear editor, I?m writing this letter so you can help with state budget cuts. My name is Jose Figueroa and I will like you to help with the school budget cuts. Some teacher will lose their jobs because of budget cuts. I go to

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Budget cuts stab schools in back

June 12, 2010
By Pay Cuts

in red, a budget bleeding with financial shortfalls. That has been fixed by $17.5 million in budget cuts, among them the elimination of ninth-grade sports and the halving of the subsidies -- equalization money -- some schools receive to replace athletic

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Defying National Trend, U. of Florida Announces Broad Faculty Raises

June 11, 2010
By Pay Cuts

Despite struggles with years of budget cuts, the University of Florida announced on Friday a broad package of pay raises for faculty members. The 4-percent merit raises buck a national trend of wage freezes at public universities

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Govt on mat over early childhood cut

June 11, 2010
By Pay Cuts

Waikato educators warn budget cuts to early childhood education could push up unemployment or drive new graduates overseas. More than 20 childcare providers met on Wednesday night at Waikato University to discuss the Government's

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

VITA deleting jobs because of budget cuts

June 10, 2010
By Pay Cuts

Virginia?s computer agency is deleting more jobs to cover spending cuts ? the latest sign of upheaval at the embattled department

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

UNC Professors Leaving For Higher Pay Elsewhere

June 9, 2010
By Pay Cuts

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- North Carolina's public universities facing recession-driven budget cuts are losing top professors to well-heeled competing colleges. The News & Observer reported Wednesday that more professors at the University of North Carolina at

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Idaho schools take different approach to budgets with common goal

June 9, 2010
By Pay Cuts

The shared focus in the face of historic budget cuts is to maintain student-teacher contact. Story Updated: Jun 9, 2010 at 1:58 PM MDT MERIDIAN -- Voters in Idaho's largest school district have approved a measure to soften

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Trial Court, union tussle over back pay

June 9, 2010
By Pay Cuts

of 3 percent over three years, but the following year balked at the increases in light of budget cuts. The union grieved the decision and the arbitrator ruled in its favor. The fight will now go before a judge, where he or she will decide if both sides

View the full...
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Merkel proposes steep budget cuts

June 8, 2010
By Pay Cuts

spending in an effort to save almost $100 billion by 2014. The plan calls for phasing in the cuts with a savings of $12.4 billion next year, Deutsche Welle reported. The proposed cuts, which exceeded expectations, call for spending reductions of $20.3

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Battle Creek schools approve $6.8 million in cuts

June 8, 2010
By Pay Cuts

The Battle Creek Public Schools board has approved $6.8 million in budget cuts including 40 teacher layoffs. The board voted Monday to approve the cuts. Deborah Gregory, executive director of financial services, says there's a good chance that the

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

MARTA Holds Meeting on Budget Cuts

June 7, 2010
By Pay Cuts

ATLANTA - Major cuts to MARTA were the focus of a budget meeting Monday night, including shutting down nearly all of MARTA's public restrooms. Job cuts are also on the table with more

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Merkel proposes steep budget cuts

June 7, 2010
By Pay Cuts

spending in an effort to save almost $100 billion by 2014. The plan calls for phasing in the cuts with a savings of $12.4 billion next year, Deutsche Welle reported. The proposed cuts, which exceeded expectations, call for spending reductions of $20.3

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Questions on proposed Texas higher ed budget cuts

June 7, 2010
By Pay Cuts

Some public colleges and universities in Texas are prepping for what could be additional budget cuts by freezing hiring and deferring equipment purchases

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Beshear takes final action on Ky. budget bill

June 7, 2010
By Pay Cuts

years 2011 and 2012. Beshear said he vetoed the items because they restricted his ability to implement budget cuts the bill requires, according to a news release from the governors office. (Click here to see the executive cabinet and transportation

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Germany plans $97.6 billion in budget cuts

June 7, 2010
By Pay Cuts

than earlier indications had suggested, said Thorsten Polleit, economist at Barclays Capital in Frankfurt. News reports had indicated cuts would total around ?51 billion. Reuters Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany. The plan, which must be

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

UK prime minister says budget cuts will be harsher than feared

June 7, 2010
By Pay Cuts

British Prime Minister David Cameron says cutting the U.K.'s deficit will require more severe budget cuts than previously feared

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Italy: Judges to strike on 1 July top protest austerity measures

June 5, 2010
By Pay Cuts

to protest the some 25 billion euros in budget cuts that include salary reductions for many civil servants, the Committee of Italian Magistrates said on Saturday. The Committee on Thursday said it would strike saying the austerity measures unfairly

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Cameron: ‘Years of pain ahead’

June 5, 2010
By Pay Cuts

The prime minister indicated a sharp downgrade in official growth forecasts and revealed that welfare and public sector pay would bear the brunt of budget cuts. It is understood that tough measures being considered to help control the 156 billion budget

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

JPS OKs shorter calendar – Jackson Clarion Ledger

June 4, 2010
By Pay Cuts


<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />JPS OKs shorter calendar
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Teachers will lose work days and essentially see a pay cut under changes the Jackson School Board approved Thursday for the 2010-2011 calendar. ...
Teacher pay talks stop againLongmont...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Italy: Judges threaten strike over budget cuts

June 3, 2010
By Pay Cuts

to go on strike after Italian president Giorgio Napolitano signed into law some 25 billion euros in budget cuts that include salary reductions for many civil servants. The measure aims to reduce the country's deficit and follows similar moves by other

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Queens librarians union slams planned $17M budget cuts

June 3, 2010
By Pay Cuts

librarians and other employees took their fight to the streets Tuesday against proposed $16.9 million in city cuts

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

San Francisco City Budget …

June 3, 2010
By Pay Cuts

knowing the details about the City Budget we are never told. Regarding the DPH (Department of Public Health) cuts, it's appalling that the Mayor is minimizing the cuts as the proposal currently hands the deepest, most severe budget cuts to the Citywide

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Nevada Regents to Consider Cuts at UNR

June 3, 2010
By Pay Cuts

will discuss taking action that will allow them to reduce personnel costs to deal with anticipated future budget cuts when the Legislature convenes in February.The board will vote on several changes to its code and policies that would allow pay cuts in

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

HE budget cuts may force students to be more focused

June 2, 2010
By Pay Cuts

to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The consultancys head of recruitment Sonja Stockton explained the further implication of the governments planned cuts for the overall approach to the jobs market. She explained: 'This could also mean that students will be

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Mail: Stand up for your kids

June 2, 2010
By Pay Cuts

their Para staff by half. What in the world! I don?t understand. We need to make budget cuts but at what price? I don?t see how cutting Paras is in any way going to benefit our kids? education. I was onboard with the learning culture in the

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

School district considers more cuts

June 2, 2010
By Pay Cuts

to the board of education on Tuesday. The district is facing up to $2 million more in budget cuts on top of the $14million that already was slashed in response to state budget shortfalls and less-than-projected income derived from student attendance.The

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Government tells Wiltshire police to make cuts

May 30, 2010
By Pay Cuts

POLICE in Wiltshire have been ordered to make budget cuts within months to help tackle the national debt. Policing Minister Nick Herbert said Wiltshire Police would lose more than 1m of the cash it had expected to spend in 2010/11

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

States passing budget cuts onto local governments

May 29, 2010
By Pay Cuts

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - States facing billions of dollars of shortfalls are passing the buck for some budget cuts onto local governments

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Schools push for givebacks; union balks

May 29, 2010
By Pay Cuts

With $4 million in School Department budget cuts on the table and another $3.5 million in potential cuts to district programs, the pressure is mounting for the nearly 1,400 members of the United Teachers of Lowell

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

College of Agriculture cuts will claim victims

May 29, 2010
By Pay Cuts

Cooperative Extension offices and 4-H Clubs and even sell off research farms after another round of steep budget cuts

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

MARTA cuts to hit buses, trains, employees

May 28, 2010
By Pay Cuts

MARTA passengers would see fewer bus routes and reduced hours for trains under a series of budget cuts being considered by the transit agency?s Board of Directors

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »

Budget cuts ?will take Wales back to the 1980s?

May 27, 2010
By Pay Cuts

WALES may face a ?double-dip recession? in light of a government cuts. Assembly ministers have been told they must find ?187m in savings as their share of the ?6.2bn being shaved off UK public spending. Now they must decide whether to

View the full article
Read more »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Pay Cuts News Feed | No Comments »