Sentence examples for pensions measures from inspiring English sources

The emphasis on tax increases was the price of eschewing further cuts in salaries and pensions – measures that Samaras' two left-wing junior partners were adamant should not be enforced in a climate that has become increasingly explosive.

The Department for Work and Pensions measures the average number of days taken between an application and a decision being made on a claim.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board said it was beginning a study of the way many companies with cash-balance pensions measure the benefits they will eventually have to pay their employees.

But some legal experts and pension rights advocates say the first of the post-Enron pension measures to reach the House floor actually opens up fresh loopholes.

As Congress debates the pension measures, the damage from scandals like Enron's may have awakened many investors to the importance of these issues, Mr. Ferrigno said.

Unlike previous pension measures that took years to be hashed out, this bill went flying through both houses of Congress on special fast-track procedures.

Some public sector union officials, reeling from their losses in the Wisconsin vote and the pension measures in San Diego and San Jose, said they needed to do more to educate the public about pensions and the nature of deferred compensation.

Other business and labor groups are calling for pension measures that would bring relief by adjusting mortality tables, allowing pension plans more time to account for investment losses, reducing pension-insurance premiums and changing the interest rate that is used in computing pension liabilities.

Last year in California, the Arnold Foundation contributed to anti-worker pension measures passed by voters in San Jose and San Diego.

Arnold has already given $200,000 to Reed's anti-public worker measure, and that's on top of the $7 million he has spent on similar anti-pension measures around country, including in San Diego and San Jose.

The new budget aims to initially reduce the bill pile by only about a third, while banking on a projected $1.5 billion in savings from creating a hybrid retirement plan for new hires and other pension measures.