SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 653

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: MARCH 7, 1996

      The Senate Education Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 653.

      Under the provisions of a current statute, no teaching staff member may be required to work on any public holiday and no deduction may be made from the member's salary if the public holiday happens to be a school day. This bill exempts from the statute a member whose employment is governed by a contract which requires the employee to work a specified number of days and the district's non-negotiable school calendar includes the statutory holiday as one of the contractual work days.