Youngstown council to consider pay raise for assistant city prosecutor
YOUNGSTOWN — City council will consider legislation Wednesday to increase the annual salary of an assistant city prosecutor as part of a settlement reached in a religious- and ethnic-discrimination federal lawsuit filed by the employee.
The ordinance would increase the annual base-pay salary of Basil Ally by $4,000. He would be paid $65,200 a year. Also, he would be named the city’s senior prosecutor if council approves the legislation.
Ally, a Muslim, filed a civil lawsuit in May 2009 against the city, its mayor, law director and city prosecutor, contending he was harassed because of his faith and Middle Eastern descent by co-workers.
Also, Ally’s lawsuit stated he was placed on administrative leave because he attended mosque services on a Friday — something his supervisors agreed to accommodate when he was hired — instead of going to a staff meeting.
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