Piccioli v. City of Phx.

BROWN, Judge:

¶1 This opinion addresses the enforceability and constitutionality of an administrative regulation that partially ended a longstanding practice of including payouts for accrued sick leave when calculating an employee's pension benefits under the City of Phoenix Employees' Retirement Plan ("Plan"). Because Phoenix voters never took any affirmative act to authorize this practice, we hold the regulation does not violate common-law or constitutional protections applicable to public employee pensions.

BACKGROUND

¶2 Phoenix is a home rule city organized under Article 13, Section 2 of the…