Foley v. Town of Northbridge

The plaintiffs are police officers who, in 1979, were certified by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education as eligible for career incentive “base salary” increases in accordance with the provisions of G. L. c. 41, § 108L, added by St. 1970, c. 835. 2 The town accepted the statute in 1971, but, as alleged by the officers in their complaint brought under G. L. c. 231A, it refuses to include career incentive salary increases in computing their pay for overtime hours. In the trial court, the town argued that § 108L does not require the town to include incentive increases in the computation of…