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Summer of the Pay Cut – About – News & Issues (blog)

July 4, 2010
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Summer of the Pay CutAbout - News & Issues (blog)Based on average annual salary, nine get a raise over last season, eight take a pay cut, and one guy signs for the same money (two salari...
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Legislators’ salaries unchanged; state pays more for health premium increase

June 16, 2010
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? The commission charged with setting the salaries of state elected officials decided Wednesday that the 18 percent pay cut it implemented last year is steep enough and voted to keep salaries unchanged for next year. ?The 18 percent cut we made last

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Politician Pay Stays The Same – Capital Notes (blog)

June 16, 2010
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Politician Pay Stays The Same
Capital Notes (blog)
Since then, others have wondered whether the fracas over the 2009 pay cut revealed an until then hidden pressure point on the Legislature's Democratic ...
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Panel Votes Against Cuts To Lawmakers’ Pay

June 16, 2010
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- After cutting pay last year, the independent commission that sets salaries for lawmakers and elected statewide officeholders has decided against further reductions. The six-member California Citizens Compensation Commission voted

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Panel votes to keep lawmakers’ salaries unchanged – Los Angeles Times (blog)

June 16, 2010
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Panel votes to keep lawmakers' salaries unchanged
Los Angeles Times (blog)
But state schools chief Jack O'Connell warned the panel that another pay cut "could be viewed as punitive and frankly would smack of retribution" for ...
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Meck County Manager Jones Takes a $20K Pay Cut – WFAE.org

June 16, 2010
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Meck County Manager Jones Takes a $20K Pay Cut
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Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones will take a $20000 pay cut next year, while salaries for other county employees will remain flat. ...

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Macedonia to cut salaries of senior government officials

June 13, 2010
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the deficit and avoid Europe's debt crisis. According to an announcement late Thursday (June 10th), Gruevski's salary and the wages of ministers and deputy ministers will be reduced by 10% this year or next. Furthermore, plans to build 100 sports venues

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U-46 freezes salaries of administrators, nonunion workers

June 11, 2010
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Elgin Area School District U-46 teachers aren't the only ones having their pay frozen next year. In step with this week's formal approval of the Elgin Teachers' Association's one-year contract, officials announced that administrators and nonunion

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Opposition wants 10 per cent pay cut – The Tribune

June 11, 2010
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Opposition wants 10 per cent pay cut – The Tribune


Nassau Guardian

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Opposition wants 10 per cent pay cut
The Tribune
THE opposition plans to introduce a resolution to cut the salaries of all members of parliament by 10 per cent - double...
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Idaho Falls School District 91 Approves Budget

June 10, 2010
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budget of $59 million, most of which comes from the state. The board approved $4.5 million in cuts to salaries, programs and services. The largest cut, $1.3 million, comes from salary and benefits for teachers and other district employees. Teachers will

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NU budget hikes tuition, squeezes salaries

June 5, 2010
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ercent student tuition hike and no funding for faculty and staff salary increases highlight an austere 2010-2011 University of Nebraska budget unveiled Friday by President J.B. Milliken. The proposed budget, which reflects spending cuts mandated by Gov.

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Salaries of university leaders frozen (6/5)

June 5, 2010
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Southern, University of Louisiana and Louisiana Community and Technical College systems. If any of those officials get foundation salary supplements in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, their salaries would be reduced by a matching amount.

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New commissioner to face labor woe: Tough decisions await winner of race in District G

June 5, 2010
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sidestepped the recessionary bullet that forced local cities to lay off hundreds of employees, eliminate cost-of-living and other pay raises and, in one case, reduce salaries and pay scales. They strapped a bandage on the county's ailing finances by

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Nevada regents give themselves the ability to cut salaries of tenured faculty – Reno Gazette Journal

June 4, 2010
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Nevada regents give themselves the ability to cut salaries of tenured faculty
Reno Gazette Journal
For the first time Nevada higher education tentured faculty can have their pay cut by up to 6 percnt if the Nevada Legislature also cuts...
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Crunch effect: Concept closes shop

June 3, 2010
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s senior executive dropped the bombshell. "I have my eldest child's school fees, rent and utilities to pay," said the 40-year-old Art Director. "Summers here are also a tough time to find a new job," added Dinesan, whose April and May salaries had not

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Santa Cruz spent 3.7 percent less for salaries in 2009 compared to 2008

June 2, 2010
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cost-saving measures put in place to deal with a drop-off in sales tax and other revenue. According to salary figures released recently by the city, Santa Cruz paid $57.9 million for payroll in 2009, compared to $60.1 million in 2008, a cut of $2.2

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From the Comments: Bay City readers discuss city employees’ pay

June 1, 2010
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salaries got readers talking, with some saying it?s about time public employees join private sector employees in cuts. pbaagentsaid ?The private sector had to make deep cuts, it's time for the public sector follow. As far as cuting the mayors salary,

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At work — and earning less: As economy begins to recover, many are living on reduced salaries

May 30, 2010
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less money from reduced-income customers, and it's a hardship for workers trying to figure out how to pay their bills. In Siegel's case, he brought in about $60,000 a year before his primary job as promotions director for a comedy club was eliminated.

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Indian Prairie Unit District 204 teachers ratify contract

May 28, 2010
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204 teachers voted 1,175 to 742 Thursday to ratify a two-year contract providing roughly .65 percent annual salary increases. The district expects to save $2.5 million next school year by freezing salaries and implementing a more efficient medical plan.

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Hobbs Schools To Cut Programs and Salaries Across the Board

May 28, 2010
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HOBBS, NM - The Hobbs School District is nearly finished tackling their budget, and it looks like cuts in salaries across the board. State budgets are forcing school districts everywhere to tighten their belts any way they can. On Thursday, NewsWest 9

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Letters: Cut salaries of school brass, not the teachers – Knoxville News Sentinel

May 26, 2010
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Letters: Cut salaries of school brass, not the teachers
Knoxville News Sentinel

... pay cut and be paid the highest salary that a regular teacher makes while also taking into account the fact that they work more days during the year....
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Pennsville committeemen act to cut their salaries by 10 percent

May 23, 2010
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DiBacco May 23, 2010, 1:45PM PENNSVILLE TWP. ? New Jersey?s debt crisis has Pennsville Township Committee making cuts like most of New Jersey?s 566 municipalities, and now the committee has moved ahead with making a cut to their own salaries official.It

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City salaries likely to grow: After no raises last year, workers could get 2 percent boost in July. Walton is still highest-paid city employee.

May 23, 2010
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has already shed roughly 260 jobs since a year ago and now has about 4,700 employees. More cuts are coming to the county, which may eliminate another 443 workers for the upcoming year. At the city, there was little change among the top earners. From 2008

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TRENTON: Tax increase, wage cuts approved as part of city budget – Southgate News Herald

May 22, 2010
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />TRENTON: Tax increase, wage cuts approved as part of city budget
Southgate News Herald

All union, nonunion, part-time and temporary employees took a 5 percent pay cut, he said. Elected officials, whose salaries are set by a compensation ...
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Spain no.2 union won’t rule out general strike

May 21, 2010
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largest union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) as saying it would likely call a general strike to protest against government cuts in salaries. 'We don't rule anything out. Our position hasn't changed,' a spokeswoman for UGT said. The UGT and CCOO have already

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Fort Myers’ police cuts not enough

May 20, 2010
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Fort Myers Police Department officers will see $2.1 million in salaries, seniority pay and benefits shaved in a new contract with the city. But the department will now have to come up with another $4.5 million in cuts by June 3. The

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Board votes to freeze salaries

May 20, 2010
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increases for two years for the clerk, sheriff and treasurer. The board voted 26-2 not to give a pay raise to any member whose term is up for election on Nov. 2. Salaries will remain at $13,419 until 2012. The board also voted to give no salary increases

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Lawmaker Offers 5 Percent Pay Cut for Congress – NBC Washington

May 19, 2010
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Lawmaker Offers 5 Percent Pay Cut for Congress
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wants to go beyond just taking away next year's automatic pay raise from Congress. The Hill reports Kirkpatrick is proposing cutting lawmaker salaries by ...

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The Agency Salary Blues: Staff Morale Takes Hit in Tough Economy

May 18, 2010
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morale seems to be at an all-time low. Half of all agencies responding to Insurance Journal's Agency Salary Survey say salaries stayed about the same in 2009 compared to 2008, while another 34 percent said salaries were lower in 2009 than in 2008. Just

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Another pay cut hitting SF City Hall – San Francisco Examiner

May 17, 2010
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Another pay cut hitting SF City Hall
San Francisco Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO ? For the second year in a row, elected officials will likely take a pay cut. Salaries of the mayor, members of the Board of Supervisors and ...
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City releases job cut numbers: 14 workers laid off

May 16, 2010
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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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Flat IT Salaries for 2010?

May 16, 2010
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According to this year's U.S. IT Salary Survey from InformationWeek, technology pros shouldn't get too optimistic when asking for a pay raise in 2010 - because it's pretty unlikely that they're going to receive

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Parsippany weighs $800,000 cuts to school budget

May 16, 2010
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from money budgeted for ?breakage,? which is the difference between salaries for retiring teachers and the lower pay for new faculty. Superintendent LeRoy Seitz said losing the breakage money could have severe consequences in the future. The money, he

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Winnebago County Board Looks to Cut

May 15, 2010
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to cut Winnebago County board salaries was shot down tonight, but that's because board members felt the cuts weren't deep enough. Tonight a proposal came before the Winnebago County board to halt salary increases, cut bonuses and even reduce board

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Cut, but not a lot in Florham Park

May 14, 2010
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officials by law had until May 19 to make their recommendations. Whether board members agree to make the cuts to salaries as officials recommend, however, remains to be seen, and will be the major topic for discussion when the board meets at 6:30 Monday,

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Report: Big Salaries at Water District

May 13, 2010
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A new investigation shows taxpayers are getting soaked by a little known agency that's handing out big salary hikes and benefits. The county-wide Metropolitan Water Reclamation District is in charge of storm runoff and sewage treatment, and a nearly $2

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Spain to Slash Wages to Cut Deficit

May 13, 2010
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so now that the economy is beginning to recover,' Zapatero told parliament on Wednesday as he detailed the cuts totaling 15 billion euros ($19.05 billion) in 2010 and 2011. Civil service salaries will be cut by 5 percent in 2010 and frozen in 2011, and

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Spain will cut civil servants’ salaries 5 percent

May 12, 2010
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the government," he said.Zapatero fleshed out the details of the plan announced Sunday for deeper spending cuts to reduce Spain's deficit from 11.2 percent of GDP last year to 9.3 percent in 2010, and eventually to 3 percent in 2013. For this year and

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June 8, 2010 elections – Q&A with Dan Hamburg

May 11, 2010
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would be affected, how, and how much would it save? Cutting salaries of workers earning $68,000 (the salary of members of the Board of Supervisors) or more by 10 percent would save approximately $800,000. In order to prevent massive layoffs, I favor

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