White Schneider is happy and honored to report the major victory for Michigan school employees on the seven-year long litigation to return more than a half billion dollars illegally taken from school employees in the long-running “3%” case.  By Order dated December 20, 2017, the Michigan Supreme Court unanimously upheld lower court rulings that found the withholding to be illegal on a variety of constitutional grounds. 

Logistics will need to be determined for how school employees will receive the refund of over $550 million that has been held in escrow since 2010-2012.  White Schneider remains a part of that process.  Anyone who worked in Michigan schools in the affected time period from 2010 through 2012, and had the 3 percent taken from their paychecks, will get money returned.