private sector and public sector

• Public Procurement Procedures in Turkey

Turkey transformed the public procurement procedures in year 2002 by two laws; Public Procurement Law and Public Procurement Contracts Law. This situation brought about challenges for the stakeholders from both the public sector and private sector. This paper presents an analysis of the new public procurement procedures to understand the path from the determination of the need to the signing of the contract as well as several special provisions for consultancy services, complaint reviews and statistics of the last two years.

• Journal of Public Procurement
• Vol. 6 Nbr. 1/2, January 2006

• Our Views: ; Who Is Working for Whom Here?; the Tension Between Private Sector and Public Sector Is Widening

THE state of West Virginia just went through another agonizing attempt to corral its pension problems. The multibillion-dollar problem in the old Teachers Retirement Fund is still so large that it blights the state's attempts to raise teacher pay. Big holes are difficult to fill, and the Manchin administration and the Legislature have thrown in money hand over fist in an attempt to do that.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• June 12, 2008

• Managing in the public sector: how do public-sector challenges differ from those in the private sector, and what professional skill sets are needed to provide effective solutions?

Thank you so much for the honor of delivering a lecture that has featured so many of my personal role models. And thank you Howard [Balano.] for the w...

• The Public Manager
• Vol. 36 Nbr. 4, December 2007

• 37 Applicants Seek St. Louis County Judgeship

Thirty-seven people want to be a circuit judge in St. Louis County. Judge James R. Hartenbach retired earlier this year; lawyers and associate circuit judges alike are vying for his vacant seat. According to the 21st Judicial Circuit Commission, which selects three nominees for judgeships in the county, the 37 applicants represent the following demographic groups: 13 women, 24 men, six minorities, 31 nonminorities, 16 private sector employees and 21 public sector employees. The applicants' mean age is 52.

• Missouri Lawyers Media
• November 15, 2011

• State's Proposed Cuts Reasonable in This Crisis ; There Is Little Gained by Trying to Portray Them As Worse Than They Actually Are.

Some readers might recall the recent editorial cartoon that featured this dialogue between two guys sitting at a bar, "Public Sector" and "Private Sector. Public Sector: "They're trying to cut our pensions."

• Portland Press Herald
• March 07, 2011

• The Public Face Of Contract - Public Sector Regeneration And Other Opportunities For The Private Sector.

The current economic climate has highlighted the role of the public sector which - as yet - remains less affected by the downturn than other sectors o...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2009, January 2009

• Our Views: ; There's a Gap Between Haves and Have-Nots; Public-Sector Compensation Is Far Higher Than in the Private Sector

OVER time, a gulf has developed between average compensation in the private sector and average compensation in the public sector. As USA Today reported this week, that gap has widened even as the recession has deepened. According to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average total compensation of state and local government workers was $39.52 an hour in December 2008.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• April 16, 2009

• Public and Private Sector Compensation: What Is Affordable in This Recession and Beyond?-A Conference Summary

For many years, conventional wisdom has held that public sector wages were lower than private sector wages, so generous ancillary benefits were needed in order to attract and retain skilled workers in the public sector. More recently, data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics have suggested to some observers that total compensation averages of the public sector now significantly exceed those of the private sector. The participants at this forum were invited to discuss these compensation differences and the assumptions behind them. The key to any benefits program is to accurately and honestly assess the risk across the entire plan. Participants at the forum identified several factors and trends that help explain differences in wages and benefits between the public sector and private se...

• Chicago Fed Letter
• Nbr. 262a, May 2009

• Can Help Mitigate Their Impact, Increase U.S. Save Lives, Says Mcgraw-Hill Construction Report

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of the earthquake and Hurricane Irene damaging the eastern seaboard, McGraw- Hill Construction has issued a new industry whitepaper detailing how the private and public sectors can significantly mitigate the impact of these and other natural disasters. The paper, Recommendations to Congress, the Administration and the Private Sector to Mitigate Impacts of Disasters by Planning and Building for Resiliency, represents the insights and strategic recommendations of leaders in the public sector, private sector and academia who participated in Engineering News-Record's (ENR) Mitigating Disaster through Design and Construction Conference held in March 2011. As evidenced this past week--and all year--we are all at risk when it comes to the im...

• U.S. Newswire
• September 06, 2011

• N.J. Sees Two-Month Job Gains Hit 18,300

New Jersey added 18,300 jobs in the past two months, according to the monthly jobs report released Thursday, providing a welcome burst of job creation after two months of losses. The state added 4,600 jobs in March, with 3,600 in the private sector and 1,000 in the public sector, the Department of Labor and Workforce Development said.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• April 15, 2011