Category Archives: Wage Insurance
Recovering Lost Wages After an Accident
Accidents are expensive: aside from potentially steep medical bills and car repair or replacement costs, many people face lost wages from the time they miss from work to go to doctor appointments or recover from injuries. sometimes, accident injuries are severe enough that people can never return to their old jobs. so, if you are injured in an accident who will pay for your lost wages? Under Florida law, you do.
Nearly 3,500 state public employees avoid layoffs after passing new contract
ALBANY – Saved!
Nearly 3,500 state workers will stay on the job after they and their union brethren overwhelmingly passed a new contract that calls for three years of basic wage freezes, furlough days and higher health insurance premium contributions.
The Public Employees Federation, facing layoffs that were due to take effect tomorrow, announced today that its members ratified the four-year contract by 70-30 percent – 27,718 to 11,645.
Open enrollment: Higher pay could mean higher premiums
Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:28pm EDT
The author is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressedare his own.
*A growing number of companies tier health benefit costsbased on salary
*Of those that do this, one-fifth kept healthcare costs incheck
*Some companies offer ways for employees to “buy back”benefits
By Lou Carlozo
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By John Cavanagh
Herald-Journal Writer
With one union contract ratified and a second ratification pending, the Oceana County Board of Commissioners Oct. 27 approved three percent wage increases for all its elected, appointed and regular employees as it adopted its 2012 general fund budget.
Wage increases also will be given to union members in the Oceana County Sheriff
Workers’ comp stands in way of job growth
One of the biggest impediments to job growth is simple wageskimming. The big offenders are the mandated insurances: Workers’Compensation and liability. Workers’ comp is nothing more than ashakedown that adds 20 percent to construction labor costs in NewYork! Liability insurance is overpriced and sometimes evenredundant.
The worker, employer, and costumer all suffer from inordinatecosts incurred by these required protection fees.
Small Group Major Medical Plans Now Available for The Contractors Plan Customers
Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 07, 2011
Fringe Benefit Group, an industry leader in the design, implementation and administration of health and retirement plans for contractors, today announced it has added a small group major medical product to the portfolio of options available to The Contractors Plan customers. the Contractors plan is Fringe Benefit Group’s prevailing wage benefit program, which helps merit shop contractors reduce labor costs, win more bids and stay compliant while providing valuable retirement and medical benefits.
Contra Costa and its sheriffs deputies reach tentative contract
MARTINEZ — Contra Costa County and its deputy sheriffs have reached a tentative contract.
Neither side is releasing specific details but the pact very likely includes wage reductions and higher deputy benefit contributions for the county’s 770 sworn and nonsworn officers plus a cheaper pension tier for new deputies.
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November 6, 2011 10:24 am admin Car
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Sen. Marc Pacheco proposes minimum wage raise
Calling it a matter of “economic justice,” state Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, has filed legislation to incrementally raise the state’s minimum wage to $10 per hour over two years, which would likely make it the highest in the nation.
“Massachusetts is one of the highest wage rate bases in the nation, so this should put us as one of the highest minimum wages in the nation,” Pacheco said. “I think it’s a matter of economic justice and fairness.”
