Fairfax cops say the county is shirking on its obligation to pay mandated salary raises to officers completing 15 and 20 years of service.
Fairfax Police filed a lawsuit against the county demanding the pay increases, according to Marshall Thielen, president of the Fairfax County Coalition of Police.
“Last budget year, and in the budget they just passed, the County Board voted not to fund longevity pay, even if they had the money in their budgets,” Thielen said.
He also said the board opted not to change the county regulations regarding longevity pay, and therefore were violating their own laws.
“We’re demanding that they adhere to the law that they passed decades ago,” Thielen said.
The county’s fire and sheriffs departments did not join the police department in the lawsuit, although all three are owed the pay increases.
