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16 Gonz. L. Rev. 93 (1980-1981)
Legal Consequences of Fiscal Emergency Wage-Freeze Legislation: Suspension of Negotiated Salary, Wage, and Other Monetary Benefits

handle is hein.journals/gonlr16 and id is 1133 raw text is: LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF FISCAL EMERGENCY WAGE-FREEZE LEGISLATION: SUSPENSION OF NEGOTIATED SALARY, WAGE, AND OTHER MONETARY BENEFITS Michael C. McClintock* CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION .. .................................... 94 A. Crises are Symptomatic of Our Times ......... 94 B. History and Developing Pattern of Wage-And- Price Controls ............................... 95 C. The Nation is in for a Period of Fiscal Belt- T ightening .................................. 96 II. STATUS UNDER THE FEDERAL ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT O F 1970 ......................................... 97 A. Constitutionality Upheld in Fry v. United States B. The Rollback Effect on Negotiated Wage In- creases ..................................... 100 III. STATUS UNDER NEW YORK STATE FINANCIAL EMERGENCY ACT OF 1975 ................................ 101 A. Constitutionality Upheld in Subway-Surface Supervisors Association v. New York City Transit Authority ............................ 101 B. Limited Exception Areas Where Wage-Freeze Leg- islation Inapplicable or its Effects can be Moder- ated Through Negotiations ................... 104 1. Court Judgment Confirming an Impasse Arbi- tration A ward ............................ 104 2. Rights Earned-and- Vested Prior to the Effec- tive Date of the Fiscal Moratorium ........ 105 3. Negotiated Job-Security Provisions as Protec- tion Against Economic-Dictated Layoffs .... 105 IV. STATUS UNDER CALIFORNIA'S PROPOSITION 13 TAX- REVOLT LEGISLATION . .............................. 106 A. Proposition 13 Upheld as Constitutional ..... 106 B. Legislative Enactment of Section 16280 of the Gov- ernment Code, Limiting Cost-of-Living Increases * Professor of Law, Gonzaga University School of Law. B.A. and J.D., University of Tulsa; LL.M. and S.J.D., Southern Methodist University. Member of the Oklahoma and Washington Bar Associations. © Copyright Michael C. McClintock 1979.

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