He said the industry, unlike public companies, is also generally exempt from disclosing the full compensation of its top officers.
Robert M. Harding, who was budget director and then deputy mayor for economic development, noted that police officers, firefighters and sanitation workers — who are all exempt from the state workers' compensation system — have more generous benefits than noncareer civilian employees like Mr. Washington.
A small proportion (in the order of 10%to1515%) of workers are employed by organisations that self-insure or are covered under a federal workers' compensation agency, or are sole-traders and thus exempted from registering workers' compensation.
There are few compelling reasons, for example, that employer-provided health insurance, which is part of compensation, should be exempt from income tax.
In a 2003 suit, the city asserted that the I.R.S. had no authority to require Social Security and Medicare tax withholding on these payments, arguing that they were the equivalent of workers' compensation, which is exempt from such taxes.
As a charter school exempt from union rules, Parker had no compensation policy during its first five years, and that meant that some junior members of the staff were paid more than veterans.
They criticised the fact that Britain's special forces are exempt from sanctions such as fines or the compensation paid by other organisations responsible for the death of their employees or others.
The biggest federal health and safety-net programs — Social Security, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Supplemental Security Income, and veterans' compensation and health benefits — are all exempt from sequestration.
If players are good enough to reach the N.F.L. at all, even at the bottom of the League's status and compensation ladder, they become professionals of a type normally exempt from collective labor bargaining.
WASHINGTON — Senior Obama administration officials were wrestling on Friday with how to handle an explosive executive pay issue involving two traders' compensation package of nearly $130 million that Citigroup says is exempt from government review.
