Michael Mattura, CSC Docket No. 2024-647
NJ Civil Service Commission decision of October 15, 2025, CSC Docket No. 2024-647: discipline, denied. Michael Mattura, Police Officer, Union City, Department of Public Safety, 20 working day suspension, on charges of chronic or excessive absenteeism or lateness and other sufficient cause.
Commission decisions · Meeting of October 15, 2025
Michael Mattura, Police Officer, Union City, Department of Public Safety, 20 working day suspension, on charges of chronic or excessive absenteeism or lateness and other sufficient cause.
- Matter
- Discipline
- Decided
- October 15, 2025, item A-2
- Outcome
- Denied
- ALJ's recommendation
- Deny the appointing authority’s motion for partial summary decision.
- What the Commission did with it
- Adopted the ALJ's recommendation
- Penalty appealed
- 20 working day suspension
- Title
- POLICE OFFICER
- Employer
- Union City
- Chair at the time
- Allison Chris Myers, Acting Chairperson
- Official decision
- CSC's PDF
Action recorded in the minutes: The Civil Service Commission affirmed the recommendation of the Administrative Law Judge.
The decision
Michael Mattura, Police Officer, Union City, Department of Public Safety, 20 working day suspension, on charges of chronic or excessive absenteeism or lateness and other sufficient cause, was before Administrative Law Judge Susana E. Guerrero (ALJ), who rendered her initial decision denying the appointing authority’s motion for partial summary decision on October 1, 2025.
This matter comes before the Civil Service Commission (Commission) for immediate review pursuant to N.J.A.C. 1:1-12.5(e) and (f). Having considered the record and the ALJ’s initial decision, and having made an independent evaluation of the record, the Commission, at its meeting on October 15, 2025, accepted the recommendation as contained in the attached ALJ’s initial decision to deny the appointing authority’s motion for partial summary decision.
ORDER
The appointing authority’s motion for partial summary decision is denied.
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