Board of Education of Central School District No. 1 of Towns of Niagara v. Niagara-Wheatfield Teachers Ass'n

Order unanimously affirmed, without costs, on the opinion at Special Term, Kronenberg, J., and the following memorandum: We only add that the fact that a contract does not specifically authorize monetary damages will not prohibit the arbitrator from awarding them in a proper case. Only an express prohibition of damages, absent here, will have that effect (Matter of Bellmore-Merrick United Secondary Teachers v Board of Educ., 51 AD2d 762, 763). Special Term properly vacated the damages provision in the instant case on the ground that the damages awarded were punitive rather than compensatory.…