... as drafted, the proposed legislation not only sets the stage for across
the board wage freezes and restrictions on individual salary movement within range, but is also broad enough to allow for compensation reductions as well as a host of changes to non-compensation provisions of collective agreements.
Not exact matches
«Such a precedent - setting alteration of NIFA's
wage freeze authority would likely open the door for similar statutory modifications to the other presently governing control
boards in the state, and curtail the abilities of any new control
board that may need to be created in the future,» Cuomo wrote.
Nassau's financial control
board is objecting to proposed state legislation that would allow the county's union employees to get contractual step increases — salary hikes based on years in the job — even during a
wage freeze.
Nassau's financial control
board has pushed off for at least a week approval of proposed new union contracts that would lift a three - year
wage freeze.
Nassau Interim Finance Authority chairman Jon Kaiman said Saturday the control
board would hold a special meeting to consider halting raises that several elected officials recently gave their appointed staff members, despite a three - year
wage freeze.
Under Kaiman, the seven - member
board worked more cooperatively with Mangano, lifting a three - year
wage freeze and approving new labor contracts.
Such a precedent - setting alteration of NIFA's
wage freeze ability would likely open the door for similar statutory modifications to the other presently - governing control
boards in the State, and curtail the abilities of any new control
board that mau need to be create din the future.
A state appeals court ruled that Nassau's financial control
board has the authority to suspend contractual pay increases for county employees, and dismissed union challenges to a three - year
wage freeze that ended in 2014.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Kenneth Brynien, the president of the Public Employees Federation, said his group would support
wage freezes for state employees provided that they are implemented «across the
board.»
While Mangano says that deal will save $ 320 million and lift a
wage freeze, the control
board, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, has expressed concerns about its legality.
He said the surplus results from cost - cutting, expense deferrals, one - shot revenue, a recovering economy and a continuing
wage freeze imposed by the county's financial control
board, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority.
One suggestion made to the Town
Board was to place an immediate hiring and
wage freeze on all positions that were not bound by contractual obligations.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a challenge by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school unions to a state fiscal - oversight
board's power to set aside labor contracts and impose a
wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.