Posts Tagged ‘ State Employees ’

Tampa Tribune
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Pay cut proposal for state workers dropped as Florida lawmakers close in on a ...
CanadianBusiness.com
(AP) - Florida's state employees avoided a pay cut but are facing a fifth straight...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Protect kids from cuts
Madison.com
Witness the 3 percent pay cut that Dane County employees just accepted. Witness the mass furloughs that state employees are enduring for two years. ...
Rough road ahead for school budgetWisconsin...
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Next year, most are predicting a five-to-ten billion dollar budget in our state. They needed to make severe cuts in state spending this year. They need to have state employees pay a greater share of their benefits package. They needed to freeze the wages

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?146,000 a year told Finance Minister Brian Lenihan that their work was so important they deserved a pay rise. Mr Lenihan subsequently decided to give these 150 key personnel -- along with 450 other senior state employees -- an exemption from the full

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Ballot vs. the bench - why Sacramento stumbles
San Francisco Chronicle
State employees have had to endure a painful 14 percent pay cut. Here's the problem. State employee unions have filed not one, but at least 25, ...

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pageinfo.sn.pluck.commentCount vine Type Size LBNY - Despite its fiscal woes, the state is scheduled to pay $478 million in raises to state employees in mid-pril, records show. Union workers are set to receive a 4 percent raise that totals more than half

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ALBANY ? Despite its fiscal woes, the state is scheduled to pay $478 million in raises to state employees in mid-April, records show. Union workers are set to receive a 4 percent raise that totals more than half of the $478 million

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Granholm's proposed sales tax hike, elimination of some business taxes and nearly $800 million in new spending cuts. Meanwhile, about 200 state employees and their union leaders rallied in front of the state Capitol this morning to protest attempts to

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Business Leaders for Michigan isn?t letting up on its drive to quash a 3 percent pay raise headed for unionized state employees. The statewide CEO group on Monday released results of a survey it commissioned that found a majority of Michigan voters

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Regents: Universities must cut salaries
KTAR.com
The cuts will come to salaries paid by the state general fund. All state employees face a 2.75 percent pay cut under a legislative budget-balancing plan, ...

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- Idaho lawmakers and constitutional officers probably won't get any raises next year, and may actually see pay cuts. That would put them in the same boat as other state employees, most of whom are heading into their second straight year with no

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$21 million in raises this year, at a time when state employees -- and taxpayers -- are taking pay cuts or losing jobs

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was doomed by bureaucratic delays and by the recession itself, the inspector general's report said, as spending cuts caused by the economic downturn forced states to trim personnel expenses. Many states either furloughed the state employees who would

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budget of his eight years in office. But he is skilled at the process and careful in making cuts, especially those that directly affect peoples' lives. That's why we are surprised at his decision to opt for layoffs of 1,000 state employees when other

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Judicial branch offers plea against more cuts
The News Journal
Jack Markell recommended keeping the pay cut in place for all state employees, including staff in the judicial, executive and legislative branches. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Governor asking for employee pay cut
KXO Radio
(State employees could be faced with a pay cut)?Governor Schwarzenegger has made the proposal. The state is facing a $20 billion deficit. ...

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straight ballot propositions to give state lawmakers a raise, Arizona voters may get a chance to give them pay cut instead. State Sen. Ken Cheuvront, D-Phoenix, has introduced a resolution that would reduce lawmakers' pay in line with any pay cuts for

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The Legislature?s nonpartisan fiscal adviser says the total $2.7 billion in cuts in Gov. Schwarzenegger?s budget plan involving state employees may be too deep to implement without a serious struggle. The governor?s proposal for the 2010-11 budget

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No layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts planned By Bill Cotterell • The News-Press Capital Bureau • January 30, 2010 (0) Type Size TLLHSSEE - State employees would not face layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts or increases

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Sacto Budget Analyst Backing State Worker Pay Cut Plan
KNX1070
LOS ANGELES (KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO) -- A new voice is saying yes to Governor Schwarzenegger's plan to cut the pay of state employees by five-percent starting ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Hawaii Announces Pay Cuts And Furloughs For State Employees
Gov Monitor
?The arbitration panel went along with our request for pay cuts for employees of some of the most important 24/7 operations at the State Hospital, ...

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of cynicism, as well as some support, is meeting Gov. Dave Heineman's proposal to freeze state employees' pay for one year to avoid layoffs and help solve the state's budget woes. "Compared to losing our jobs, it's better," said Judy Wissink, a 10-year

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lawmakers acknowledged. While both Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, and Rep. Charles Ross, R-Naches, raised the prospect of widespread wage freezes for state employees, Gregoire has previously said she's unwilling to do that because it would violate union

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Los Angeles Times
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Community groups protest Schwarzenegger's plan to cut state employees' pay
89.3 KPCC
The plan to close the state's $20 billion deficit includes permanent pay cuts for state workers. The governor's...
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MiamiHerald.com
<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Schwarzenegger: Furloughs out, pay cuts in
Bizjournals.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger would replace unpaid furloughs of state workers with a permanent pay cut averaging 10 percent in his proposed fiscal 2011 budget, ...
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Finance Committee on Monday released its budget recommendations for the 2011 fiscal year, which includes a 2 percent pay cut to all state employees and public educators. The outlook for the state's budget is grim. Over the past two years, the state lost

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No pay raises for state employees in Virginia and some job cuts may be behind a significant drop in donations to the state-managed seasonal charity drive. from NewsChannel 8

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surging Medicaid caseload. Increases in K-12 education funding are not part of the governor's plan, nor are wage increases for state employees or higher payments for medical professionals who see Medicaid patients. Democrats already are upset about the

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lawmakers say it will be difficult for agencies and school districts to whittle budgets further without reducing the salary payload. 'Five percent, even a 10 percent cut, yeah, you're trimming, cutting travel budgets, and consolidating purchases. When

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