board of education, under such rules
as may be promulgated by the commissioner
with the approval of the
State board, is hereby empowered
and directed to deduct and withhold
an amount equal to 10 percent of
each semimonthly or monthly salary
installment, from the payments of
the salaries made to such employees
as shall participate in such plan, and
the accumulated deductions for any
academic year shall be paid to the
employee or his estate, under such
rules as may be established by the
board of education in one of the
following ways:
1 at the end of the academic year;
2 in one or more installments after
the end of the academic year but
prior to Sept. 1;
3 upon death or termination of
employment if earlier. Such
deductions may be deposited
by the board of education in an
interest bearing account in any
financial institution having its
principal office in the State of
NJ.
Any board of education which had
in effect, prior to Jan. 1, 1980, any
payment plan which permitted
funds to be raised in the next fiscal
year is hereby authorized to continue
to raise funds in this manner.
18A:29-4.1 Salary Policy and
Schedule for Teaching Staff
Members; adoption, etc.
A board of education of any district
may adopt a one, two, three, four
or five year salary policy, including
salary schedules for all full-time
teaching staff members which shall
not be less than those required by
law. The policy and schedules shall
be binding upon the adopting board
and upon all future boards in the
same district for a period of one,
two, three, four or five years from
the effective date of the policy but
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shall not prohibit the payment of
salaries higher than those required
by such policy or schedules nor the
subsequent adoption of policies or
schedules providing for higher salaries,
increments, or adjustments. Every
school budget adopted, certified,
or approved by the board, the voters
of the district, the board of school
estimate, the governing body of the
municipality or municipalities, or
the commissioner, as the case may
be, shall contain such amounts as
may be necessary to fully implement
such policy and schedules for that
budget year.
18A:29-9 Agreements as to
Initial Salaries
Whenever a person shall hereafter
accept office, position or employment
as a member in any school district
of this state, his initial place on
the salary schedule shall be at such
point as may be agreed upon by the
member and the employing board of
education.
18A:29-11 Credit for Military
Service
Every member who, after July 1,
1940, has served or hereafter shall
serve, in the active military or naval
service of the United States or of this
state, including active service in the
women’s army corps, the women’s
reserve of the naval reserve, or any
similar organization authorized by
the United States to serve with the
army or navy, in time of war or an
emergency, or for or during any
period of training or pursuant to or
in connection with the operation
of any system of selective service,
shall be entitled to receive equivalent
years of employment credit for such
service as if he had been employed
for the same period of time in
some publicly owned and operated
college, school, or institution of
learning in this or any other state or
territory of the United States, except
that the period of such service shall
not be credited toward more than
four employment or adjustment
increments. Nothing contained in
this section shall be construed to
reduce the number of employment
or adjustment increments to which
any member may be entitled under
the terms of any law, or regulation,
or action or any employing board or
officer, of this state, relating to leaves
of absence.
18A:29-14 Withholding
Increments; Causes; Notice of
Appeals
Any board of education may withhold,
for inefficiency or other good
cause, the employment increment,
or the adjustment increment, or
both, of any member in any year by
a recorded roll call majority vote of
the full membership or the board of
education. It shall be the duty of the
board of education, within ten days,
to give written notice of such action,
together with the reasons therefore,
to the member concerned. The
member may appeal from such action
to the Commissioner under the
rules prescribed by him. The Commissioner
shall consider such appeal
and shall either affirm the action of
the board of education or direct that
the increment or increments be paid.
The Commissioner may designate an
assistant commissioner of education
to act for him in his place and with
his powers on such appeals. It shall
not be mandatory upon the board
of education to pay any such denied
increment in any future year as an
adjustment increment.
18A:13-64 Positions, rights and
benefits of regional, constituent
district employees continued
All employees of the regional district
shall continue in their respective positions
in the withdrawing district,