...compared to most industries, Allen Engebretsen said, with a matching retirement plan and reimbursement for health insurance premiums. Most employees were born and raised in Homer and grew up on the water fishing."They know boats and have...
...revenue.But look at the three biggest tax expenditures last year. First comes the tax-free treatment of health insurance premiums paid by employers; in 2008, Republican candidate John McCain proposed abolishing it as a sensible economic...
...amount to avoid the risk of having to pay a large uncertain amount. More specifically, you pay the smaller health insurance premiums to the insurer so that if you are one of the unlucky few who will get prostate cancer or have a premature baby...
...ruled unconstitutional in a time of financial uncertainty isn't prudent. Some states are considering taxes on health insurance premiums, doctors, and "sin taxes" to pay for their exchanges; others have considered cutting education, law enforcement...
...salary at each step to be increased. And they want the district to provide more money for teachers' monthly health insurance premiums. The parties have been discussing a two-year contract. The current contract expires June 30. Nonbinding...
...the Juneau School District's contribution to health insurance premiums by $50 per person a month. In the contract's...also increases the district's contribution to health insurance premiums by a further $50, to a total of $735 per person...
...school district's contribution to teachers' health insurance premiums, although the teachers' own contributions also...additional $726,000 in salaries and $140,000 in health insurance premiums in the first year, and $600,000 more in salaries...
...increases the rates on the schedule. It also adds to the amount that the school district pays for employee health insurance premiums. Teachers ratified the contract Friday. Under the contract, teachers' pay will range from $34,606 to...
...presented to the district earlier this summer. It includes raises of 4 percent and $800 a month to employee health insurance premiums. Going into talks Tuesday, the difference between the two sides' demands came to about $1.5 million...
...increased considerably. I have seen new mandates for professional development and test-taking as well as a health insurance premium that has risen to the point where I now pay $153 a month for my health insurance with an anticipated increase...
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