Court Opinion

ID: 9749038
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 16:21:57.784081+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:42.740378
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
The contractual language at issue in this case provides:
Nothing contained herein shall be construed to deny any professional employee such rights as he/she may have under the Public School Code, or the Public Employees Relations Act 195, or other applicable state laws.
This language does not incorporate the School Code into the contract; it merely provides a framework which can be used to interpret the contract itself: nothing in the contract shall be construed to deny an employee rights which he or she would have under the code.
Accordingly, I would affirm the Commonwealth Court’s affirmance of the trial court’s vacation of the arbitration award, since the arbitrator had no jurisdiction.