This case presents question as to whether arbitrator properly directed State to pay approximately $52 million to employees of certain State agencies pursuant to terms of collective bargaining agreement, even though General Assembly had failed to appropriate sufficient funds to said agencies to fully pay said employees. Appellate Court, in confirming arbitrator’s award, found that section 21 of Public Labor Relations Act did not make instant collective bargaining agreement subject to General Assembly’s appropriation power. It also rejected State’s claim that State would owe said employees nothing if General Assembly chose to appropriate all of its funds to purposes other than payment of amounts that State’s agents had agreed to pay employees in collective bargaining agreement.
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