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LACERA was established on January 1, 1938, following passage of the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL), which mandates LACERA to pay for the defined retirement benefits of Los Angeles County employees and their beneficiaries. In 1971, LACERA began administering a retiree healthcare benefits program. Management
LONG ISLAND, NY — A total of 43 LIRR employees earned more than $250,000 in 2020, according to payroll data released by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Of those, 19 workers topped $300,000 ...
The deal gave NYCTA workers the ability to retire with about half-pay after twenty years if the employee was over fifty years old. This would later cause problems, as large numbers of transit workers would retire to take advantage of these benefits.
Just before the contract ended, the MTA offered a 3.5% per year raise and no change in the retirement age, with the caveat that new transit workers pay 6% of their wages into the pension fund, up from the 2% that current workers pay. The offer was rejected, and a strike declared.
MTA and Transport Workers Agree on Pay Increase for Transit Employees - Fort Greene-Clinton Hill, NY - The eight percent wage increase would be implemented over the next five years.
Plenty of state workers are asking when they’ll see raises that unions won earlier this summer through contract bargaining. The short answer? Soon, but not immediately. When will I get my...
NEW YORK CITY — A Long Island Rail Road worker claimed 10 hours a day of overtime, earning $344,000 extra pay, while he actually went bowling. Another MTA worker raked in more than $200,000 in ...
On February 1, 2023, as part of her Executive Budget proposal to the New York State Legislature, Governor Kathy Hochul proposed raising the MTA payroll tax, a move projected to increase revenue by $800 million, and also giving the MTA some of the money from casinos expected at present to be licensed soon for business in Manhattan.
When the New York City Transit Authority was created in July 1953, the fare was raised to 15 cents (equivalent to $1.71 in 2023) and a token was issued. [89] In 1970 the fare was raised to 30 cents. [90] This token is 23mm in diameter with a Y cut out, and is known as the "Large Y Cutout".
More than 3,400 state employees have retired or have filed written intention to retire this year, but that number is expected to increase before July 1. Employees who retire after that...