Metropolitan Fire Fighters Ass'n, Local 763 v. Briley

OPINION

SHRIVER, Judge.

THE CASE

This is a declaratory judgment suit which was instituted and sustained as a class action on behalf of all salaried employees of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, which seeks recovery of a half-month’s salary alleged to have been withheld from each employee as a result of an executive order of the Mayor changing the dates of all paydays from a time during each two week pay period to a date one week after the end of such pay period.

The case was heard by Chancellor Frank F. Drowota, III, and resulted in an opinion and decree…