Bd. of Education Bernards Tp. v. Bernards Tp. Ed. Assn.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pashman, J.

This case requires us to both apply and expand upon the principles which we enunciated last Term in State v. Stale Supervisory Employees Ass’n, 78 N. J. 54 (1978), Township of West Windsor v. PERC, 78 N. J. 98 (1978), and Ridgefield Park Education Ass’n v. Ridgefield Park Board of Education, 78 N. J. 144 (1978). Specifically, we must determine the validity of a clause of a public sector collective agreement which provides that disputes concerning the withholding of a teacher’s salary increment “for inefficiency or other good cause,” N. J. S.…