Jaeger v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

POLOW, J. A. D.

By their appeal to the Chancellor of Higher Education, initiated in this matter on January 3,1978, seven nonteaching professional employees of New Jersey state colleges attacked the prevailing interpretation of N.J.S.A. 18A:60 — 14 as unreasonable, contrary to statutory intent and constitutionally impermissible sex discrimination. Specifically, a memorandum issued by the Assistant Chancellor of Higher Education instructed the state colleges that an approved leave of absence taken during the five-year probationary period for multi-year…