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Board agenda includes personnel action directing psychiatric/psychological exam for employee ID 3732 under state law
Summary
On the agenda the board included a recommended 'examination for cause' (M20) directing employee ID number 3732 to undergo a psychiatric and/or psychological examination by the district's designated physician, citing N.J.S.A. 18A:16‑2 and N.J.A.C. 6A:32‑6. The action was described as confidential and statutory notice procedures were to be followed.
The Wayne Township Board of Education's July 11 agenda included a personnel recommendation (M20) requiring an employee identified only in the record by employee ID number 3732 to submit to a psychiatric and/or psychological examination by the district's designated physician.
The reading of the recommended action states that, based on information presented by the administration and the board's judgment, employee ID 3732 had exhibited a deviation from normal mental health that was adversely affecting the employee's ability to perform essential job functions. The resolution cites N.J.S.A. 18A:16‑2 and N.J.A.C. 6A:32‑6 (and board policy) as the statutory and regulatory basis for directing such an examination and requires that a written medical report be provided confidentially to the board. The superintendent is authorized to provide appropriate statutory notice to the employee.
The transcript records the resolution language read into the agenda and the board's placement of the item on the agenda; it does not record a public vote or additional detail about the underlying personnel matter. The record identifies the affected employee only by an internal employee ID number and states that the medical report will be provided confidentially to the board.
District officials did not provide the employee's name in the public record at the meeting. The board's action as read references statutory authority and requires adherence to notice and confidentiality procedures.
Next steps: if the board adopts the recommended action, the employee would be scheduled for the examination by the district's designated physician and a confidential medical report would be provided to the board consistent with the cited statutes and policy.
