One issue that remained unresolved was the university's proposal to reduce health coverage for professors hired in the future, creating two benefit tiers for faculty members.
The accord increased employee contributions, established sharply lower benefit tiers for new employees, and raised the retirement age by two years.
As listed in Table 1, additional benefit tiers (based on trigger thresholds) were added in December 2008 and November 2009.
All insurance plans will have to meet government standards: essential benefits, tiers of coverage, no discrimination for pre-existing conditions and so forth.
So far, more than 2.1 million people who've been jobless for longer than six months have missed checks because of the lapse, a number that climbs by several hundred thousand every week as people finish up their 26 weeks of state benefits or current "tier" of federal benefits and then find themselves ineligible for the next level up.
If you go ahead and address those, there are side benefits like tiered storage.
Russell is quick to add that even if a sleeper suite or lounge pass isn't in your travel budget, relaxing airport amenities are good for everyone's health and wellbeing: "even if you don't use a relaxation lounge, you get a second tier benefit by being around more contented travellers".
Sweden provides third tier benefits, including old-age pensions and sickness and disability benefits, through a combination of programs.
And Bezos accomplished it without the benefit of two tiers of stock.
This sets up a two-tier benefit system, reducing already meagre pensions and unemployment benefits by between $6 and $14 a fortnight and the mean-tested family tax benefit by between $36 and $116 a year.
Sweden also provides second and third tier benefits.
