Adams v. West Ottawa Public Schools

Appellants are school bus drivers who appeal, by leave granted, the lower court’s order affirming the Michigan Employment Security Board of Review’s order denying them unemployment benefits. We affirm.

The essential dispute here is whether the so-called “school denial period” in MCL 421.27(i)(2) bars appellants’ receipt of unemployment benefits. That subsec tion sets out an exception to the payment of such benefits. It states, in pertinent part:

With respect to service performed in other than an instructional, research, or principal administrative capacity for ... an educational institution ...…