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RETIRED PERMANENTLY DISABLED YONKERS FIREFIGHTERS ARE ENTITLED TO HAVE HOLIDAY PAY AND CHECK-IN PAY INCLUDED IN THE AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION TO WHICH THEY ARE ENTITLED UNTIL RETIREMENT AGE; NIGHT DIFFERENTIAL PAY, HOWEVER, SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED (CT APP). ​

​The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Wilson, over a two-judge dissent, determined retired Yonkers firefighters (Retirees) , who are permanently disabled, are entitled to have holiday pay and check-in pay included in the amount of compensation they receive until reaching retirement age. The retired, disabled firefighters are not entitled to have “night differential” pay included, however:

General Municipal Law § 207-a (2) provides that, for firefighters who are permanently disabled due to work-related injuries and receiving certain benefits from the state, a municipality must make up the difference between those benefits and the firefighter’s “regular salary or wages” until the firefighter reaches the mandatory retirement age. Since at least 1995, the CBAs have provided for holiday pay, check-in pay, and night differential, which collectively the parties refer to as “special pays.” … Until 2015, Yonkers included all three of these payments when calculating the Retirees’ section 207-a (2) supplements. * * *

Unlike check-in and holiday pay, the Retirees have not established whether all firefighters are contractually entitled to receive night differential pay … . Night differential contains two express conditions: it is earned only by “firefighters who are regularly scheduled to work rotating tours that include the 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. night tour, and only to firefighters actually working that night tour.” The restriction of this payment to those firefighters who “actually work[] the night tour” strongly suggests that night differential must be specially earned, not paid to all, rendering it distinct from “regular salary or wages,” and the Retirees have not demonstrated that the CBAs [collective bargaining agreements] require all firefighters to work the night tour. Thus, the Retirees have not demonstrated that all firefighters are entitled to earn the night differential such that it should be included in the section 207-a (2) calculation. Matter of Borelli v City of Yonkers, 2022 NY Slip Op 07094, CtApp 12-15-22

Practice Point: Permanently disabled Yonkers firefighters are entitled to have holiday pay and check-in pay, but not night differential pay, included in the compensation they are to receive until retirement age.

 

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