Bill Text: NJ A848 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides certain reemployment rights to teachers dismissed due to a reduction in force.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A848 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A848-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 848

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides certain reemployment rights to teachers dismissed due to a reduction in force.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  


An Act concerning the reemployment of teachers dismissed due to a reduction in force and supplementing chapter 28 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes. 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.18A:28-12 or any other section of law to the contrary, a teacher whose position is eliminated due to a reduction in force  shall, in the event that the school district reinstates the same position within 18 months of the teacher's dismissal, be given first consideration for that position.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     Under current law, the determination not to renew the contract of a nontenured teacher is a discretionary matter for the local board of education and, if it results from a reduction in force, there exists no right of reemployment.  Current law also provides that in the event that a teaching staff member (other than a nontenured teaching staff member) is dismissed as a result of a reduction in force, he will be reemployed in order of seniority when a vacancy occurs in a position for which he is qualified.

     This bill provides that a teacher whose position is eliminated due to a reduction in force will, in the event that the school district reinstates the same position within 18 months of the teacher's dismissal, be given first consideration for that position.  The bill applies to both tenured and nontenured teachers.

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