Children's Memorial Hospital received 500 doses on Monday in a white plastic foam cooler. The hospital has ordered 2,000 more doses of nasal spray and 16,000 doses in shot form.
Cook County Health and Hospitals System received 3,000 nasal spray doses Monday
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Several proposals were discussed at Monday’s evening meeting. Discussion centered on a 6%, a 3% increase and a 3% increase only for non-union employees making less than $50,000. The issue will be discussed again at a committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday , October 14.
Below are the list of non-union employees possibly affected by the salary increase. Please note that in the case of employees of elected officials (such as the Sheriff)—the county only would approve an increase in the personnel budget of the department, any increase would be the prerogative of the elected official.
These employees do not participate in the Social Security Program; most participate in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMFR). None of the figures below consider either the employee or county’s contribution The individual contributes 4.5% of their wages; the county contributes 10.27% of wages. There is a separate levy for IMFR therefore the county’s additional IMFR contribution is not paid out of the General Fund and not included in the budget of the General Fund. Individuals in the Sheriff’s Department participate in the SLEP program, the employee contributes 6.5% and the county’s contribution is 21.37%.
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village board voted Thursday to give each village employee up to seven "pandemic sick leave days," or PSLs, on top of other sick leave, vacation and personal days.
would become available only when the government had declared an influenza pandemic. The employee would have to have used up all his regular sick leave, personal days and comp days. Either he or someone in his household would have to be diagnosed with the flu, or the area where he lived would have to be placed under quarantine, or the school attended by his children or the workplace where his spouse worked would have to be closed because of flu infection.
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Someone needs to research this statement, if true it is very damming to this constant conservative request for tort reform.
However, their argument that legislative caps on malpractice awards would reduce the cost of their insurance premiums has proved to be false. In virtually every state where legislators have reduced or abolished pain and suffering awards, premiums for doctors have continued to increase, not decrease.
Read Mr. Johnson’s, [Wonder Lake, Il] complete comments by clicking on the following: Northwest Herald | Tort reform useless
