Professor James J. Brudney was quoted in Newsday where he speaks about Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto’s proposed 2017 budget which assumes $7.7 million in savings from layoffs that might face challenges by the union. Both the current union president Jarvis Brown and town officials have said the no-layoff clause will expire on Dec. 31.
The contract itself doesn’t contain a termination of the no-layoff clause, according to Joffe and James J. Brudney, a labor law professor at Fordham University Law School.
“Based on that contract language, and the statutory language of Taylor, I don’t see a sunset implication,” Brudney said in an email.
