Key legal question
Whether the salary reduction for unpaid leave of a public school teacher had to be calculated on a 1/47 basis instead of 1/40.
Extracted holding
The 1/40 deduction was not arbitrary and could be applied to the teacher's unpaid leave.
Extracted reasoning
Teachers are governed by a different remuneration and working-time regime than other state employees. Their work outside lessons is not defined or controlled in the same way, and school holidays do not correspond to ordinary working weeks. The cantonal court's refusal to apply the general state-employee reduction rate was therefore not arbitrary.