New Jersey § 2b:11-2

§ 2b:11-2.

The Legislature finds and declares that: a. As a result of voter approval in November of 1992 of a constitutional amendment

and pursuant to the provisions of the “State Judicial Unification Act,” P.L.1993, c. 275 ( C. 2B:10-1 et seq. ), the State is to assume certain costs of the judicial system; b. The most important resource of the judicial system is its personnel; c. State assumption of the costs of the judicial system offers the opportunity to

bring judicial employees, whose positions were previously funded by the 21 counties,

into a truly unified judiciary; d. Both the representatives of the judiciary and the majority representative of the

employees of the judiciary have freely and voluntarily entered into a letter of agreement,

not part of this act, concerning certain aspects, as described therein, of the employer-employee

relations process in the judiciary, which letter is enforceable in accordance with

its terms; e. It is, therefore, altogether fitting and proper to ensure fair treatment of county

judicial employees upon their transfer to State service and in the process effectuate

a unified judiciary so that its more than 7,800 trial court employees, together with

the 1,500 State-level judicial employees, will provide greater effectiveness in the

trial court operations, greater accountability in the courts and greater flexibility

in meeting the demands placed on the State's judiciary.