Monthly publication addressing recent legal developments in school law.
President Biden announced that the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) would be issuing an emergency rule that requires all private sector employers with 100 or more employees to require their employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 or submit to weekly COVID-19 testing.
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The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 placed several new obligations on group health plan sponsors, which in many situations are school districts, with respect to federal COBRA and state health insurance continuation laws. Certain individuals are eligible to enroll in continuation coverage and have their continuation coverage premiums 100% subsidized by the plan sponsor.
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As schools get ready for the 2021-2022 school year, there appears to be a fair amount of confusion and uncertainty regarding the duty of school districts when it comes to requiring masks on school buses.
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