Posts Tagged ‘ Furlough ’

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Minimum Wage Plan Could Mean Bad News for EconomyKXJZ NewsThey'd get the furlough and the pay cut from the county and the furlough and pay cut from the state and that would be pretty devastating. ...News ...
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the possibility of five unpaid furlough days for firefighters and police officers. Civilian employees face eight furlough days, pay cuts and around 200 layoffs for civilian personnel are also on the table. Council member, Steve Salazar, voiced hisView ...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Superintendent taking a pay cut
Sun-Sentinel (blog)
Notter said he plans to take a $40000 pay cut from his $300000 compensation package by paying for some benefits himself, and taking a furlough. ...

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they were merely agreeing on the big number, but could still debate and change what the money would pay for. The school budget proposal includes no furlough days in the next school year. Some board members opposed the tax increase proposal, saying they

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As you may already know, furlough days will continue next fiscal year, merit increases will be deferred and salary cuts will be necessary. Unfortunately, there is some misinformation being circulated. It is important that employees have the opportunity

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t the answer. A better answer -- and we take no joy in promoting this -- is union wage concessions, including a wage freeze or unpaid holidays and furlough days. School district sources say they are seeking about $200 million in savings from school

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the unions to consider 'a laundry list' of givebacks, including higher health care co-pays, unpaid furlough days and cuts in longevity bonuses. In one case ? that of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers ? the mayor says he wants union

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />County employees say cuts will hurt
WALB-TV
Wednesday, the finance committee took a final vote to recommend that county employees have 12 days of holiday pay cut for the next fiscal year. ...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Madison teacher pay cuts ratified
KIDK
Teachers will take a 4% pay cut with 5 furlough days. Those 5 furlough days equate to an additional 2.6% pay cut which equates to teachers...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Dallas Police and Fire employees whining about furlough days, pay cuts
Pegasus News
This week, Suhm met with police and fire employees at the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas to discuss furloughs...
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furlough days for most county employees. The budget reduced spending by $6.5 million over last year, and cuts pay to almost all county employees by about 5 percent, in the form of 12 furlough days. "This was a very difficult budget that required hard

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will save a total of $93,000. School secretaries announced last week that they had agreed to a wage freeze and a one-year extension of the current contract, saving about $25,000. The administrators' union, representing 17 people, agreed to three furlough

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finance director Kate Fuentes presented a proposed budget to the school board on Monday, which calls for a salary freeze for administrators, unpaid furlough days for teachers, cutting a sports program, and discontinuing holiday bonuses. Notable cuts for

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />DCP and Sheriff's Office have first resignations over cuts
WALB-TV
If the county does furlough employees 12 days, that is almost a five percent pay cut. Sheriff Kevin Sproul got his first official notice from one of his ...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />California Governor outlines new budget austerity program
World Socialist Web Site
... 's proposal also includes a new one-day-per-month furlough, raising the overall effective pay cut for state workers to approximately...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />AFSCME seeks cuts to mayoral staff car stipends
The Detroit News
Bing wants a 10 percent pay cut through 26 furlough days each year for three years and numerous benefits cuts, such as health care and vacation time. ...
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trim the budget without cutting salaries, the city announced last week that they could no longer avoid making cuts that are an unwelcome subtraction from city worker's bank accounts: layoffs and furlough. Now, the city has released more specific

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winter break, or the random Wednesdays in April, the bottom line is the county is taking away two pay days, better known as mandatory furlough days. Human resources will calculate teachers' daily wage and spread the deduction throughout our monthly or

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Sugar-Salem employees volunteer for salary cuts
Rexburg Standard Journal
Over two thirds of our (classified staff in the) district voted to take three furlough days and our administrators said they wouldn't mind taking a pay cut. ...

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MONTREAL - CAE Inc. is restoring pay raises as it ends last year's austerity measures that were designed to insulate the flight simulator and training company from uncertainties in the global aerospace industry. The Montreal-based company

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to tell the public about the school budget crisis and to assist with negotiations. The district expects budget cuts of almost $50 million for 2010-11 and has sent final layoff notices to 375 teachers. The union and district are negotiating for furlough

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MiamiHerald.com
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Court Blocks NY Governor's Plan to Furlough 100000 Workers
BusinessWeek
Legislative approval of wage freezes or pay cuts has been an important part of other court cases where governments were allowed to...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />FUSD trustees agree to 1.08% pay cut
Fresno Bee
Fresno Unified trustees voted Wednesday to take a pay cut equal to the roughly 1% that employees will lose due to furlough ...
Fresno Unified Trustees take one...
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RALEIGH, N.C. ? Senate Democrats will propose neither experience-based pay raises to schoolteachers nor a bonus for all state employees to pay them back for last year's furloughs like those the governor sought in her budget plan, chamber leaders

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />County okays furloughs for three offices
Reno Gazette Journal
JP Bennett said in these tough economic times, "It's think it's hard for me personally to ask staff to take a pay cut without doing so personally. ...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Unions protest locally against 1-day unpaid leave
Poughkeepsie Journal
We can't sustain a 20 percent pay cut," Street said. "We've had lags, we've had layoffs, we've had years of zeros in salaries....
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New York Daily News
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Martland: Executive pay cuts, not furloughs
Albany Times Union (blog)
David Paterson, all members of the Legislature and legislative staff should take an immediate pay cut equal to any...
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fiscal 2011, saving $160,000. Firefighters will have nine furlough days, saving $306,000. Also, union members will pay 20 percent of the costs of their health care policies, up from 15 percent. Retirees will also contribute more to health care, from 25

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proposals were made, and eventually a tentative agreement was reached calling for 20 furlough days, a 2 percent pay cut and an early retirement incentive for qualified teachers. School districts are required to issue final layoff notices by next

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Concord budget cuts to hit parks, pool
San Jose Mercury News
Last year, the city's non-police employees took a 5 percent pay cut through furlough days in a one-year contract. Police officers have not taken any pay cut ...
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borough recently announced that every non-union employee is required to take 12 furlough days representing a 4 percent salary decrease. Furloughs are an option but shouldn't have been the first cut made. This type of action may play well politically

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Education Association ratified a proposal to include a furlough day this school year to help with the budget cuts. A furlough day isn?t just a day off without pay, according to Alan Caldwell, president of BVEA. It is a districtwide noninstruction day

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />County furlough days = 4.6% pay cut
WALB-TV
Now, furloughs are on the table-- 12 unpaid days, which equates to a 4.6% reduction in pay. That's a hard pill to swallow, after years of not getting cost ...

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administrators will be on unpaid furlough for five days next school year as part of $100,000 in salary reductions. The cuts affect 55 district and school administrators from Superintendent Rick Doll on down, chief operations officer Frank Harwood said

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Contract proposal also includes furlough days to close $14 million deficit Type Size A A A Salary cuts, pay freezes, furloughs and increased class sizes are being proposed by the Tulare high school district in an effort to close its projected $14 million

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Rex: School job cuts next year could top 3000
WPDE
All agency employees - including Rex - took a pay cut of one week's salary last year in the form of a mandatory five-day furlough, and Rex has ordered ...
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May 1--Three of the Frederick County Commissioners have ruled out salary reductions or furlough days for employees in the soon-to-be adopted fiscal 2011 budget. 'I'm not interested at all in revisiting it,' Commissioner David Gray said Friday. 'I do think

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been upset since last year when the Board of Supervisors voted to furlough managers, strip their scheduled cost-of-living salary increase and eliminate a costly benefit that allowed managers to cash-out excess vacation time in an effort to balance the

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after the Board of Supervisors voted last year to furlough managers and eliminate their scheduled cost of living salary raises. At the time, top officials billed the cuts as a good faith effort to lead by example in the hope the employee unions would

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Trustee Nancy Teicheira was the lone dissenter. Superintendent Jason Messer said teachers have agreed to $6 million in cuts over the next three years: A 175-day school year in 2010-11. Six furlough days, three staff development days and three 'other

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