ALBANYThe Business Council has asked members of New York's Congressional
delegation to support comprehensive energy legislation that would require
new uniform standards for reliability, encourage investment in upgraded
transmission systems, and create new federal authority to site transmission
facilities when state siting processes falter
Governor
George E. Pataki has created a bipartisan commission on education
reform to consider issues in school funding raised by a June
decision by the state Court of Appeals decision declaring
New York City's school funding inadequate
ALBANY
Lewis Golub, chairman of the Golub Corporation and Price Chopper Supermarkets
and a business leader who helped build a small, family grocery business into
one of the most admired private companies in New York and one of the largest
in the nation, will receive the prestigious Corning Award for Excellence for
2003
The New York State Insurance Department has approved a 1.7
percent workers' compensation rate increase to take effect
December 1 of this year.
The Department rejected two previous rate increase request
by the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB)
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SURVEY CONFIRMS CONTINUING CHALLENGE OF HEALTH-CARE COSTS;
NEW YORK'S EMPLOYERS,
WORKERS BOTH SHOULDER HEAVIER BURDEN
ALBANYRapidly rising health-care costs are forcing employers in New
York State to pay double-digit premium increases, as well as to scale back
benefits and pass a larger share of the rising costs on to employees, The
Business Council's latest annual survey of employers' compensation practices
shows
Seven metropolitan areas in New York State have the highest property
tax rates in the nation, according to a new study by the American City
Business Journals newspaper chain.
Of the 10 metropolitan areas in the nation with the highest property
taxes, seven are in New York State, the study showed
ALBANYThe Business Council today called on the states of New York and
Connecticut to drop their opposition to two proposed natural gas pipelines
that could fuel more electric generating capacity in New York City and on
Long Island, thus reducing the danger of future blackouts.
Business Council President Daniel B
Strong protests from the nation's business community have
led the Federal Communications Commission(FCC) to delay until
January 1, 2005 the implementation of a controversial new
federal regulation governing the right of businesses to send
faxes
ALBANY-Business Council President Daniel B. Walsh today praised U.S. Sen.
Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and New York Governor George Pataki for what
Walsh described as "calls for common sense": their proposals to put the Cross
Sound cable to use carrying needed electricity between Connecticut and Long
Island
ALBANYNew York's workers' comp cost gap compared to other states has
been shrinking a bit, but costs remain well above the national average, two
new statistical reports indicate.
Newly compiled data from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)
show that the average cost of a workers' comp case in New York was $11,793
in policy year 1999-the most recent year for which data were available