A federal judge has struck down a state financial oversight panel’s 2011 decision to impose wage freezes on Nassau County employees, holding the panel lacked authority at that time to order the freezes.
Soon after declaring a control period in January 2011 to supervise Nassau County’s finances, the Nassau County Interim Finance Authority adopted a March 2011 resolution suspending "all increases in salary and wages of employees of the County." The January 2011 declaration followed the authority’s "interim finance period" that ended in 2008.
