18A:29-14 - Withholding increments;  causes;  notice of appeals

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 of the  board of education.  It shall be the duty of the board of education, within 10  days, to give written notice of such action, together with the reasons  therefor, to the member concerned.  The member may appeal from such action to  the commissioner under 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.

  L.1967, c.271; amended by L.1968, c. 295, s. 13, eff. Sept. 9, 1968.