Brown v. City of East Point

Underwood, Judge.

Appellants, employees of the City of East Point, filed a class-action suit in December 1975 to require the city to implement incremental pay raises enacted by the city council the previous year, effective July 1, 1974. The successor city council, in enacting the budget for fiscal year 1975-1976, decided not to fund the incremental . increases. Appellants contend that they have a vested contractual right to the pay raises and that the city is required to fulfill the obligation. The city, on the other hand, contends that it has followed both its charter and state law in…