The Devil is in the details. Are these employees “at will” or “contractual”? With an at will employee you can change the deal “going forward” just not retroactively. If there is a contract for a set amount of time, of course, if you change the terms that is a breach. In fact, it is unclear to me when the OP writes that “[a]n Orthodox Jewish school in NYC changed their payment format for the school year 5779” whether the OP is talking about 2018-19 or 2019-20. My GUESS — and admittedly it is not what the OP wrote, is that there were two changes. First, that payment is now made over 12 months instead of 10. I have heard schools do both. There are pro and cons. Second, they are requiring some “in service” time in the summer. The school is basically saying you are a 12 month employee — not just 10. I think this is all fair — as long as the deal wasnt changed midstream.
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