County of Niagara v. Newman

OPINION OF THE COURT

Doerr, J.

Section 209 of the Civil Service Law provides for detailed procedural steps to be followed in the resolution of disputes between public employers and their employees in the course of collective negotiations. Critical in the resolution of this case is the interplay between section 209 of the Civil Service Law, which grants the legislative body unilateral power to resolve the impasse, and section 209-a of the Civil Service Law, which requires the employer to keep in effect the terms of an expired agreement until a new agreement is negotiated.

The facts in the instant…