Kunz v. City of New York

Plaintiffs were and most of them still are employed by the sanitation department of the City of New York as crane enginemen. They were appointed from competitive civil service lists and prior to March 15,1945, were paid on a per diem basis for 313 days a year at the then prevailing rate of $15 a day. They earned $4,695 annually. On the date mentioned, as a result of instructions from the director of the budget and because of budgetary changes resulting from a rise in prevailing wage rates, plaintiffs and others similarly employed were offered agreements providing for a yearly salary of $4,000…