JACKSON — A bill headed to Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour would change the salary structure for future state superintendents of education. Current law sets the superintendent’s pay at 90 percent of the commissioner of higher education’s salary. The College Board sets the commissioner’s pay. A bill winning House approval Friday would erase that link and [...] [...]
WAVELAND — The Waveland Board of Aldermen has postponed raises for themselves and the city’s newly-elected mayor. The Sun Herald reports the four-member board voted unanimously in a special-called meeting yesterday to defer their raises until they can be discussed more fully during budget negotiations, which Mayor David Garcia said would start as soon as [...] [...]
TOKYO — Sony Corp., which has posted consecutive annual losses, said today its chief executive has received around 800 million yen ($8.8 million) in annual pay. Nearly half of Welsh-born Howard Stringer’s pay came from stock options, said Sony spokeswoman Mami Imada. Stringer’s annual pay in the financial year to March 2010 was made public [...] [...]
Real average hourly earnings for all employees rose 0.1 percent from March to April, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. This increase stems from a 0.1 percent decrease in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) while average hourly earnings remained unchanged. Real average weekly earnings rose 0.4 percent over [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: April 29,2010
Tags: Congress, pay
WASHINGTON — Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) supported legislation that blocked members of Congress from getting a pay raise. Taylor is an original co-sponsor of HR 5156, the Stop the Congressional Pay Raise Act, which passed in the House of Representatives April 27 by a vote of 402 to 15. This bill freezes salaries at their [...] [...]
GUANGZHOU, China — Two factories that make Microsoft Corp. products in southern China violated overtime regulations and failed to properly register the use of workers aged 16 to 18, a monitoring group said Monday. The problems at the plants in the city of Dongguan were initially raised last week by the National Labor Committee, a [...] [...]
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — Union workers at AT&T Mobility in South Mississippi have voted on whether to strike as part of an effort to get an in increase wages and benefits. Eric Cox, treasurer for the Communications Workers of America Local 3519, said the company’s 400 employees are in contract negotiations. The workers, who handle customer [...] [...]
Real average hourly earnings was unchanged from Dec. 2009 to Jan. 2010, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. A 0.2 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was offset by a 0.2 percent increase in average hourly earnings for all employees. Real average weekly earnings grew 0.3 percent [...] [...]
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