Golden v. Joseph

All the petitioners-appellants are employed by the City of New York under the civil service title of “ Stationary Fireman ’ ’. Their appeal here is by our leave from a unanimous order of the Appellate Division, First Department, confirming a determination of the comptroller of the City of New York in which, after hearings, he dismissed complaints filed by petitioners under section 220 of the Labor Law. The comptroller held that petitioners are not in such employment as entitles them, under that statute, to the “ prevailing rate of wages ” mandated by the statute to be paid to “ laborers,…