Fair Lawn Education Ass'n v. Fair Lawn Board of Education

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pashman, J.

In this case we are called upon to assess the validity of an Early Retirement Remuneration Plan (ERR) agreed to by the Fair Lawn Board of Education (Board) and the Fair Lawn Education Association (Association) — the majority representative of the Board’s teaching employees. For the reasons to be given below, we conclude that the particular plan here at issue: (1) lacks statutory authorization; (2) contravenes this Court’s holdings in Jacobs v. New Jersey Highway Auth., 54 N. J. 393 (1969), and State v. State Supervisory Employees Ass’n, 78…