N.Y. NYS Financial Emergency Act for the city of NY 868/75 § 10: Wage freeze

* § 10. Wage freeze. 1. Increases in salary or wages of employees of

the city and employees of covered organizations which have taken effect

since June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-five or which will take

effect after that date pursuant to collective bargaining agreements or

other analogous contracts, now in existence or hereafter entered into,

requiring such salary increases as of July first, nineteen hundred

seventy-five or as of any date thereafter are hereby suspended. All

increased payments for holiday and vacation differentials, shift

differentials, salary adjustments according to plan and step-ups or

increments for employees of the city and employees of covered

organizations which have taken effect since June thirtieth, nineteen

hundred seventy-five or which will take effect after that date pursuant

to collective bargaining agreements or other analogous contracts

requiring such increased payments as of July first, nineteen hundred

seventy-five as of any date thereafter are hereby, in the same manner,

suspended. For the purposes of computing the pension base of retirement

allowances, the suspended salary or wage increases and the suspended

other payments shall not be considered as part of compensation or final

compensation or of annual salary earned or earnable. The suspensions

provided herein shall be effective for the first pay period ending on or

subsequent to September first, nineteen hundred seventy-five and shall

continue until one year thereafter and, to the extent of any

determination of the board that a continuation of such suspensions, to a

date specified by the board, is necessary in order to achieve the

objectives of the financial plan, such suspensions shall be continued to

the date specified by such board, which date shall in no event be later

than the end of the emergency period.

2. This section shall not be applicable to employees of the city or

employees of a covered organization covered by a collective bargaining

agreement or an employee of the city or a covered organization not

covered by a collective bargaining agreement where the collective

bargaining representative or such unrepresented employee has agreed to a

deferment of salary or wage increase, by an instrument in writing which

has been certified by the mayor on or before September first, nineteen

hundred seventy-five, or certified by the board after September first,

nineteen hundred seventy-five as being an acceptable and appropriate

contribution toward alleviating the fiscal crisis of the city. The board

may, if it finds that the fiscal crisis has been sufficiently alleviated

or for any other appropriate reason, direct that the suspensions of

salary or wage increases or suspensions of other increased payments

shall, in whole or in part, be terminated.

3. The provisions of this section shall terminate on July first,

nineteen hundred seventy-eight.

* Terminates July 1, 2035 or ... see § 13