Sentences with phrase «wage freeze authority»
«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.
https://www.newsday.com/ Not exact matches
The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority imposed a controversial wage freeze in April.
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.
James Carver, president of Nassau's Police Benevolent Association, said his lawyers will argue that even if NIFA had the authority to suspend pay increases «they acted much too quickly and the wage freeze should have been the last resort, not the first resort.»
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.
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.
2004: The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority enacts a wage freeze just months before the teacher contract expires.
The last contract expired in July 2004, months after the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority enacted a wage freeze, which the union challenged in court.
But when the unions negotiated their most recent contract, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority agreed to lift the wage freeze but not the longevity pay.
But U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert ruled that, «in declaring a fiscal crisis and imposing the wage freeze, NIFA did not create a «new rule,» but merely exercised authority delegated to it by the [county] legislature in 2000.
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.