Mandate Relief

The Business Council is a member of the “Let NY Work” coalition, and supports its local government mandate relief package, which aims to:

• Institute additional state pension reforms
  
  
• Mandate consideration of “ability to pay” and make other reforms in compulsory arbitration on municipal labor contracts
  
  
• Reduce the costs of public construction by repealing the Wicks Law, reforming the Scaffold Law, and adopting the Public Construction Savings Act
  
  
• Modify the Triborough Amendment to freeze step increases when public workers’ contracts expire
  
  
• Establish minimum health insurance contribution levels for employees and retirees