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Accommodating Employees Exempt from Vaccination Requirements
As a number of regions across the country begin to experience a surge in coronavirus cases due to new variants, employers and local, state, and federal gover...
Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccination Policies
As we are quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of the introduction of Covid-19 in the United States in February 2020, federal regulatory agencies suc...
Evolving State Marijuana Laws and Safety-Sensitive Functions
Initiatives decided on November 3, 2020 by Arizona, New Jersey, Montana, South Dakota and Mississippi broadened state marijuana laws. There are now has 36 st...
Legal Update for School Bus Contractors
Despite the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) continued position that “the school bus is the safest vehicle on the road”, in 2019 the ...
Overtime and Minimum Wage Changes Propoosed by U.S. Department of Labor
Many remember the 2016 Obama era rule from the U.S. Dept. of Labor (US DOL) that sought to more than double the threshold for overtime pay by employers. That...
Diabetes Exemptions & Waivers
In September 2018, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced it was revising 49 CFR § 391.41 to permit drivers with a stable insulin ...
Federal Court Rules that DEA Does not Protect Job Applicants
Business owners are aware of federal laws that prohibit discrimination in employment. They also understand that federal ani-discrimnation laws protect both ...
Drug & Alcohol Policies - Discretionary or Zero Tolerance
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) maintains strigent requirements for drug and alcohol testing in addition employers should have effect...
New York's Medical Marijuana Law: What Does it Mean for School Bus Contractors
In 2014 New York legalized medical marijuana with passage of the Compassionate Care Act (CCA). This NY state law allows doctors to prescribe marijuana in a n...
FLSA Overtime Ruling Update
In May 2016, the Department of Labor published its final rule, more than doubling the threshold for overtime pay. In December 2016, a federal court in Texas ...
Positive Drug Tests: A Tale of Two Terminations
The 2017 legal environment was active for school bus contractors in Pennsylvania but the two cases discussed in this article are notable because they demonst...
Are your DQ Files Audit Ready?
While a school bus operation can be audited by many regulatory agencies in regards to their employee files, Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Motor...