Commissioner of Education Finds Teachers are Entitled to Paid Leave Pending a Fitness for Duty Exam
Firm Partner, Colin M. Lynch, and Associate, Sheila Murugan, obtained a Final Decision from the New Jersey Commissioner of Education on November 18, 2021, which reversed a board of education’s finding that it could place a teacher on an involuntary sick leave pending a fitness for duty evaluation finding her fit to work.in On October 27, 2020, the teacher suffered an alleged physical medical episode in her classroom and emergency medical services was called. The board require
