Question juridique clé
Whether the teachers' classification in salary class 10 with 26 compulsory hours violated equality or arbitrariness principles.
Solution extraite
The differentiation was objectively justified by the shorter training and lower diploma level for Bildnerisches Gestalten teachers, so the salary class and workload arrangement was permissible.
Motifs extraits
The court gave deference to cantonal pay policy and accepted training duration and diploma level as objective criteria. It held that a three-year bachelor-level HGK diploma could be valued below a four-year university master-level diploma and that the differing workload between Kunst I and Kunst II was supported by the longer and more demanding teaching assignment in Kunst I.