The ruling has wide-ranging implications for the city and its nearly 4000 firefighters.
."Local law may not supplant Chapter 174's rule of decision by requiring an inconsistent compensation measurement."
In earlier pleadings, attorneys for the city also argued the pay standard itself, requiring cities to pay firefighters equally to their private counterparts, was unconstitutional because no such comparisons exist. That will allow the case regarding the contract stalemate to continue, and the two sides will return to trial court to decide the firefighters' pay dispute for 2017.
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