Labor & Employment Law

School Bus Driver Not Entitled To Unemployment During Summer Months

By Harvey Randall, Esq.

School Bus Driver Not Entitled To Unemployment During Summer Months
Source: Adjunct Law Prof Blog; http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/

Reproduced with permission. Copyright © 2008, Mitchell H. Rubinstein, Esq., Adjunct Professor of Law, St. Johns Law School and New York Law School, All rights reserved.

Adams v. West Ottawa Public Schools, ___N.W.2d___(Mich. App. March 27, 2008), is an interesting unemployment decision. The court held that school bus drivers are not entitled to unemployment during the summer months. The court summarized the applicable law as follows:

In simpler terms, employees working for an educational institution, who are not teachers, researchers or principal administrators, may not receive unemployment benefits during summer break if they have a reasonable assurance that they will be working in the academic year that follows the summer break. [The same exception is applicable to teachers, researchers and principal administrators under subsection (i)(1), and to all educational employees . . .

Mitchell H. Rubinstein, Esq.

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).