Dear President Scott Hovsepian,
We won the Brewster Academy pay case!
The Appeals Court reversed the Superior Court.
The court recognized the artifice that Brewster created to get around the law that requires recruits in the academy to be paid what amounts to the lowest wage in the CBA for that city/town.
We previously, in Foxboro, got the Appeals Court also to reverse the Superior Court and clearly state that a town can’t manipulate to avoid this law.
The Superior Court will have to assess treble damages against the Town and also attorneys’ fees. The nice part about the attorneys’ fees is that they are set not at what we charge but what lawyers of comparable skill and ability receive from people with money, probably in the $400-$500 per hour range.
Without MassCOP’s support throughout this long process, we could never have won this case.
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Thanks.
Alan H. Shapiro
Sandulli Grace, P.C.
44 School Street, 11th Floor
Boston, MA 02108
Office 617.523.2500
Direct 617.932.5071
Fax 617.523.2527
Cell 617.877.1756
ashapiro@sandulligrace.com
