Judges won’t have to pay more toward their pensions and benefits, despite a reform law
Judges won’t have to pay more toward their pensions and benefits, despite a reform law passed last year that was supposed to affect all state employees.
The state Supreme Court today ruled legislators can’t increase the amount judges pay toward their benefits, because doing so would violate a constitutional ban on cutting judicial salaries.
The constitutional prohibition is designed to insulate judges from retribution when they make politically unpopular decisions.
Tuesday’s decision upholds lower court rulings that exempted judges from the sweeping pension and benefit reforms signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie last year. (Kaltwasser, NJBIZ)