Gov. Kathy Hochul and lawmakers quietly delivered a gift to public employee unions — by partially rolling back the decade-old pension reforms that curbed runaway costs to taxpayers and overtime abuse, The Post has learned.
The rollbacks were tucked into the record-breaking $220 billion election-year state budget in a deal reached last week.
“It looks like ‘big labor’ got things they were seeking and rolling back pension reform is one of them,” said Peter Warren, research director with the Empire Center for Public Policy.
The pension laws approved in 2010 and 2012 required new state and local government workers hired under new Tiers 5 and 6 to work
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