Lack of Pay Raise Helps Drive Out Workers' Compensation Board Chairman

Kenneth J. Munnelly, the chairman of the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board for the past 15 months, will retire today and concedes he was influenced by the lack of a pay raise. The board hired Munnelly in 2008 as general counsel, a role he held for five years before taking a $50,000-a-year pay cut and accepting Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s appointment as a board member in 2013. He served as vice chairman for about two years before the governor named him chairman in June 2016. He said he decided to call it quits and retire to Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, aft...