Court Opinion

ID: 9761426
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 01:42:38.632807+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:23.689484
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LARSEN, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent. This case is not ripe for decision since the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board has not determined whether the teachers, by not attending the faculty, guidance staff, and parent-teachers’ association meetings, violated the contract in question. The case should be remanded to the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board.
Further, since the contract had, in fact, expired, the school district was under no obligation to process the teachers’ grievance. This Court held in Appeal of Cumberland Valley School District, 483 Pa. 134, 394 A.2d 946 (1978) that after a contract has expired, an employer can not make unilateral changes in such terms and conditions of employment as wages, health and life insurance benefits, and tuition reimbursements. Cumberland Valley does not require an em*383ployer to maintain a grievance process after the termination of a contract.