Rogel v. Taylor School District

This case raises an issue of first impression: whether a four-week period in which the claimants did not work at the beginning of the school year constituted a period of unemployment entitling them to unemployment benefits or whether it was a period between two successive academic years for which claimants were not entitled to benefits under the Michigan Employment Security Act (mesa), MCL 421.1 et seq.; MSA 17.501 et seq. We hold that it was the former and reverse the circuit court’s denial of unemployment benefits.

Claimants are approximately six hundred teaching and nonteaching employees of…