At Social Security, which offers total disability benefits to nonrailroad workers, the approval rate is 55percentt.
The plan, which would displace some 250 businesses employing 1,300 workers, needs approval from the City Planning Commission and the City Council.
For another, G.M. workers, whose approval is necessary, might easily balk at the idea of anything that puts a portion of their medical benefits in jeopardy.
Still, the governor's budget will not pass without a major battle in Albany, and changes to the benefits of city workers require approval by the City Council.
Workers with such approval are not allowed to work directly on the track unless they are able to move to a safe location at least 15 seconds before a train moving at top speed arrives.
NationsBank tightened its employee policy on securities trading in March 1997, requiring its workers to get approval from bank officials for all securities trades before they were made and to supply officials with names of all securities owned by employees.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are two of the only countries in the world requiring an exit permit, a computerised document for which workers need employer approval to go home.
In May Cuomo convened the New York Wage Board, an agency established in 1933 with the power to raise wages for specific groups of workers without legislative approval, and asked it to recommend a minimum wage for the state's 180,000 fast food workers.
The Stayers resoundingly talked about having a strong sense of place and motivation to serve it; these workers needed community approval and described having their families and roots embedded in it.
