Below New Jersey’s Open Public Conferences Act (OPMA), a public company might talk about taking hostile motion towards a public worker in a closed (government) assembly except the worker is being mentioned workout routines his or her proper to have the dialogue performed in public.
To ensure that the worker to meaningfully train that proper, the general public company is required to provide well timed discover (ie a “Rice” discover, named after the 1977 case of Rice v. Union County Regional Excessive Faculty Board of Training) to any worker whose rights might be adversely affected by the supposed personal dialogue.
In at the moment’s revealed (and thus precedential) opinion, linked beneath, the Appellate Division held that tenured board of schooling staff, not like different public staff, are ruled by the extra restrictive Tenured Workers Listening to Legislation which requires all prices towards them to be mentioned in personal .
Since a tenured worker has no proper to pressure such discussions to a public assembly, the courtroom reasoned, she or he additionally has no proper to a Rice discover.
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