§ 10 — Wage freeze

* § 10. Wage freeze. 1. Increases in salary or wages of employees of\nthe city and employees of covered organizations which have taken effect\nsince June thirtieth, nineteen hundred seventy-five or which will take\neffect after that date pursuant to collective bargaining agreements or\nother analogous contracts, now in existence or hereafter entered into,\nrequiring such salary increases as of July first, nineteen hundred\nseventy-five or as of any date thereafter are hereby suspended. All\nincreased payments for holiday and vacation differentials, shift\ndifferentials, salary adjustments according to plan and step-ups or\nincrements for employees of the city and employees of covered\norganizations which have taken effect since June thirtieth, nineteen\nhundred seventy-five or which will take effect after that date pursuant\nto collective bargaining agreements or other analogous contracts\nrequiring such increased payments as of July first, nineteen hundred\nseventy-five as of any date thereafter are hereby, in the same manner,\nsuspended. For the purposes of computing the pension base of retirement\nallowances, the suspended salary or wage increases and the suspended\nother payments shall not be considered as part of compensation or final\ncompensation or of annual salary earned or earnable. The suspensions\nprovided herein shall be effective for the first pay period ending on or\nsubsequent to September first, nineteen hundred seventy-five and shall\ncontinue until one year thereafter and, to the extent of any\ndetermination of the board that a continuation of such suspensions, to a\ndate specified by the board, is necessary in order to achieve the\nobjectives of the financial plan, such suspensions shall be continued to\nthe date specified by such board, which date shall in no event be later\nthan the end of the emergency period.\n 2. This section shall not be applicable to employees of the city or\nemployees of a covered organization covered by a collective bargaining\nagreement or an employee of the city or a covered organization not\ncovered by a collective bargaining agreement where the collective\nbargaining representative or such unrepresented employee has agreed to a\ndeferment of salary or wage increase, by an instrument in writing which\nhas been certified by the mayor on or before September first, nineteen\nhundred seventy-five, or certified by the board after September first,\nnineteen hundred seventy-five as being an acceptable and appropriate\ncontribution toward alleviating the fiscal crisis of the city. The board\nmay, if it finds that the fiscal crisis has been sufficiently alleviated\nor for any other appropriate reason, direct that the suspensions of\nsalary or wage increases or suspensions of other increased payments\nshall, in whole or in part, be terminated.\n 3. The provisions of this section shall terminate on July first,\nnineteen hundred seventy-eight.\n * Terminates July 1, 2035 or ... see § 13\n