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COSA audio conference to focus on military leave

One week from today, the NSBA Council of School Attorneys will hold its next audio conference, this time on legal requirements for employers of military reservist employees. The federal law in question is the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), which Congress recently amended and for which the feds have issued proposed rules that should be finalized soon. These are mostly compliance issues, although BoardBuzz readers know that even this technical area of law sometimes unleashes the loud-mouthed politics and sloppy reporting that afflict our nation’s schools.

Featured experts are Stuart L. Knade, chief counsel for the Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) and a U.S. Army Reserve JAG lieutenant colonel who just spent a very long active duty spell away from PSBA working for Uncle Sam on these very issues; Robert M. Wilson, chief of the Division of Investigation and Compliance of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service; and W. Kenan Torrans of the same Service’s Investigation and Compliance Division. The discussion will be moderated by NSBA attorney Lisa Soronen, who has been at the forefront of NSBA’s efforts to ensure that the feds take into account the unique considerations schools have when it comes to reservist employees, especially teachers.

Conference details and registration info here. NSBA National Affiliate districts get their usual discount, and it’s a flat fee for as many participants as can gather.

admin|June 7th, 2005|Categories: Boardbuzz, Governance|

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