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Employee Compensation

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Happy May Day: NY Post Columnist Nicole Gelinas Argues Against Living Wage Bill (Of Course)

    No shocker here, but a New York Post op-ed contributor is peddling the same misleading bullshit about minimum wage increases that opponents always peddle. Enter Nicole Gelinas. Raising minimum wage -- as per the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act -- is "left-wing social engineering." (Classic Post p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    City Schools Blow It; Send Error-Riddled Stats To Federal Oversight Agency

    From the land of the seriously hard to believe, a major statistical report by the New York city Department of Education, which oversees our public schools, to the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights is so riddled with obvious errors as to be laughable. The exhaustive report covers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Veto! Bloomberg Rejects Wage Bills, Says City Council Proposal Would Kill Jobs

    As expected, Mayor Mike Bloomberg today vetoed the City Council's wage legislation, but unlike his past public comments on the matter, he didn't go so far as to compare the bills to Communism. Still, if the legislation passes, Bloomberg will sue. The proposals in question were the prevailing an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Is New York's Minimum Wage Too Damn Low?

    If you've been following recent developments in the capital, you've probably heard that Dems in Albany have been pushing for a $1.25 minimum wage increase -- from $7.25 to $8.50. And most New Yorkers would be OK with this boost. This change would impact more than 600,000 New Yorkers who are someho ... More >>

  • News

    March 21, 2012

    The Nonprofit 1 Percent

    Even the do-gooders can seem blind to their own excess

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Mike Bloomberg: Remember, It Costs Money to Pay A Living Wage

    In his weekly radio show, Mayor Mike Bloomberg took the opportunity to remind everyone that he's not the biggest fan of a living wage bill. It's been one of the hot-button political issues this month that put City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a bit of a pickle. Basically, Quinn, a mayoral hope ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Christine Quinn Presents Living Wage Bill Compromise, Pols Are Generally Happy

    Some important news in the ongoing living wage battle in New York -- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proposed today a compromise that would require higher wages at city-subsidized developments. Companies subsidized by the city would have to pay employees $10 an hour plus benefits, instead of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Back to School at LIU? Faculty On Strike, Locked Out

    Striking faculty outside of LIU's downtown Brooklyn campus​Update below: LIU releases statement that deal with union could come on Monday. Like most schools in the city, this week was supposed to mark the normal start of fall classes at Long Island University's downtown Brooklyn campus. Inst ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Wall Street Bonuses Down, But Nobody's Making Less

    With profits higher than ever on Wall Street, executives are starting to shift their compensation packages away from bonuses and into higher salaries, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said in an annual report today. While Wall Street salaries were up by six percent in 2010, bonuses declined by 8 perc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Mayor Bloomberg and Bonuses: A Classic Flip-Flop?

    Bonus baby​One major theme of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's State of the City Address yesterday was his call for belt tightening in light of spending cuts and tough economic times. The mayor specifically brought up one example of spending that he hopes to eliminate: the $12,000 annual Christmas b ... More >>

  • Art

    December 15, 2010

    David Wojnarowicz Foe Bill Donohue’s Catholic League Salary

    Or, More Ways to Cash in on Religion

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Albany OKs Stronger Labor Law for Workers

    New York's beleaguered actors waiters can celebrate today: Governor Paterson just signed into law new penalties for employers who bilk their workers out of fair wages and overtime pay. The law, which takes effect in April, hopes to curtail some of the problems that are "rampant" in service indu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    MTA Fares Up, MTA Service Down, MTA Salaries...Up?

    ​Over the last year or two, we've seen the price of a single ride Metrocard go from $2 to $2.25, and the service on all the places we use that Metrocard to get us go down and thin out. So how're we supposed to react when we hear that MTA salaries are up, and that LIRR conductors are making $10 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Furloughs? David Paterson Backs Himself Into a Bad Position, Again

    ​Maybe it's just David Paterson fatigue. The media is so tired of kicking the governor around that we're letting him posture as a bulwark against fiscal madness when he's one of its causes. It took a federal judge a minute or two to figure out that Paterson's furlough plan was an illegal vio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2010

    Citigroup Plans to Raise Executive Salaries Up To 50%

    ​According to Bloomberg News, Citigroup Inc., which got $45 billion dollars in bailout money from the federal government, will be raising the base salaries of their investment bankers and traders as much as 50%. Citigroup's market value dropped 84% in the past year.

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    MTA Meets the People, Before Deciding on New Reasons to Hate Them.

    ​You think your morning commute sucked? Imagine taking the subway to go talk to the MTA this morning.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    WSJ's New Union Contract: Wage Freeze to July 2011!

    ​As the Wall Street Journal hurries to ready Project Amsterdam, Rupert Murdoch's bid to rock the New York Times dead with a big, splashy color metropolitan section before he kicks the bucket, staffers at the Journal are burning the midnight oil. Which sucks, because they just got their new uni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Another Day, Another Lawsuit, This Time at Cafe Habana

    ​Cafe Habana is arguably as well known for its photogenic waitresses as it is for its Cuban sandwiches, even going so far as to pimp them out in its annual Habana Girls calendar ("12 months of beautiful women and fun ways anyone can help the environment"). But it seems that some of those waitr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Spitzer Dragged Into News Again, Donates Teaching Salary

    A secondary story to the tale of Eliot Spitzer's alleged thirst for more, more elective office has been that he's now teaching a course at CCNY, which has provoked its own cartoons and commentary. Now the Times finds itself inundated with complaints because they quoted a school spokesman who describ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    State Legislators Double-Dip Salaries, Pensions; Lone Holdout Honored

    ​If voters are unhappy with the state legislature now, wait'll they hear that four members are collecting both salaries and pensions for their service to the state. The New York Times finds that assembly members Harvey Weisenberg, Rhoda Jacobs, John J. McEneny and William L. Parment, all Democ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Minimum Wage Increases Today, But Tipped Employees Still Shafted

    Marcin Wichary/flickr The federal minimum wage increases to $7.25 today. And that's good news, unless you happen to be a bartender or waiter. According to a report released by the National Employment Law Project, the wage for tipped employees will remain a measly $2.13 per hour. That rate, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Waiters, Other Tip-Earners Screwed on Minimum Wage, Says Study

    The raise in the national minimum wage to $7.25 that goes into effect tomorrow gives some relief to America's most hard-pressed workers. But as you might imagine there are loopholes. For employees who make much of their money on gratuities -- including waiters, waitresses, and bartenders -- the mini ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    Times Asks/Tells Employees to Take 5% Pay Cut

      The New York Times, we learn from interoffice memos reproduced at Poynter.org, is asking its employees to take a five percent pay cut. Well, it's actually telling many of them to take it, or leave it (to make it more pointed, they also announce 100 layoffs), but the many unionized members ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 25, 2009

    Aaron Lazar

      The New York Times, we learn from interoffice memos reproduced at Poynter.org, is asking its employees to take a five percent pay cut. Well, it's actually telling many of them to take it, or leave it (to make it more pointed, they also announce 100 layoffs), but the many unionized members ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    NY1: Albany Dems Dish Out Fat Raises to Aides

    These days, when many people are seeing their salaries cut, it seems there are only two jobs in which you can reasonably expect to make more money in the New Depression: as failed executives of bailed-out corporations, and in politics. We previously saw NY1 reveals that dozens of Democratic aides ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Mayor Solves Syrup Smell, Compares Obama Pay Cap to Russia

    Mystery smell secret revealed! The Mayor said "We do take this stuff very seriously," so he and representatives of the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Health (in cooperation with Jersey authorities) tracked down the source of the mysterious maple syrup smell that has been n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Wall Street Bonuses: "Plummeted" or "Hefty"?

    Sometimes the New York Times leads consensus, sometimes it follows it. Rarely does it break with consensus, which is what's interesting about today's "What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses" story. The paper reports the $18.4 billion workers in the securities industry collected as bonuses "w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Dead presidents in Africa and on Wall Street

    Sometimes the New York Times leads consensus, sometimes it follows it. Rarely does it break with consensus, which is what's interesting about today's "What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses" story. The paper reports the $18.4 billion workers in the securities industry collected as bonuses "w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    Krugman called it: 'Heads they win, tails we lose'

    Sometimes the New York Times leads consensus, sometimes it follows it. Rarely does it break with consensus, which is what's interesting about today's "What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses" story. The paper reports the $18.4 billion workers in the securities industry collected as bonuses "w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    Passing the bucks

    Sometimes the New York Times leads consensus, sometimes it follows it. Rarely does it break with consensus, which is what's interesting about today's "What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses" story. The paper reports the $18.4 billion workers in the securities industry collected as bonuses "w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2008

    Lehman Brothers NY Employees Will Share $2.5B Bonus: Independent

    Sometimes the New York Times leads consensus, sometimes it follows it. Rarely does it break with consensus, which is what's interesting about today's "What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses" story. The paper reports the $18.4 billion workers in the securities industry collected as bonuses "w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    NYPD Gets Raises, More Perks in New Contract

    Sometimes the New York Times leads consensus, sometimes it follows it. Rarely does it break with consensus, which is what's interesting about today's "What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses" story. The paper reports the $18.4 billion workers in the securities industry collected as bonuses "w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2008

    Law and Disorder: The Bank Robber Cop

    Sometimes the New York Times leads consensus, sometimes it follows it. Rarely does it break with consensus, which is what's interesting about today's "What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses" story. The paper reports the $18.4 billion workers in the securities industry collected as bonuses "w ... More >>

  • News

    July 10, 2007

    NYPD Green

    Bad boys on the job, bad boys on the job; whatcha gonna do when they won't pay you? Go to arbitration.

  • News

    June 12, 2007

    Nanny McFee

    New York's baby-sitters want their fair share

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2007

    Inside Wolfowitz's Second War

    New York's baby-sitters want their fair share

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2006

    Pricing the Pols: How Much for a Beep?

    New York's baby-sitters want their fair share

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2006

    Deal Lets Mayor Fire Fire Chief

    New York's baby-sitters want their fair share

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2005

    Transit Union Strikes a Deal

    New York's baby-sitters want their fair share

  • News

    April 26, 2005

    Viacom Execs Get $100 Mil

    CBS parent's stock fell while duo raked in dough for on-the-job training

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2005

    Morning Report 4/22/05
    The Wages of Sin Is Debt

    CBS parent's stock fell while duo raked in dough for on-the-job training

  • News

    January 11, 2005

    Head for the Exits

    CBS parent's stock fell while duo raked in dough for on-the-job training

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2004

    Paying for Mistakes

    CBS parent's stock fell while duo raked in dough for on-the-job training

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2004

    This Is a Stick-up

    CBS parent's stock fell while duo raked in dough for on-the-job training

  • News

    August 26, 2003

    CEOs: Higher and Fire

    For Execs, the Bigger the Layoff, the Bigger the Payoff

  • News

    June 11, 2002

    Déjà Vu All Over Again

    Echoes From the '60s Haunt Bloomberg's School Reform

  • News

    March 21, 2000

    Sports

    Echoes From the '60s Haunt Bloomberg's School Reform

  • News

    February 1, 2000

    Overdue: Pay Raises

    Librarians Are Checking Out Over Low Salaries

  • Long Island Voice

    August 24, 1999

    Crying For Help

    Librarians Are Checking Out Over Low Salaries

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