NCAA rules to give eligibility relief for student-athletes in spring sports, none for winter sports athletes

The national office of the NCAA in Indianapolis is shown Thursday, March 12, 2020. The NCAA canceled the men’s and women’s Division I basketball tournaments amid coronavirus fears on Thursday. | Michael Conroy, AP

SALT LAKE CITY — NCAA Division I student-athletes who compete in spring sports will have an additional season of competition and an extension of their period of eligibility, the NCAA Division I Council voted Monday as college athletics have been impacted by the novel conoravirus pandemic.

There won’t be any eligibility relief for student-athletes in winter sports, as the majority of their seasons were completed, the council also announced.

NCAA championships for both winter and spring sports were canceled March 12, as the pandemic began to initially make its impact in the sports world.

Per Division I rules, student-athletes have a five-year period to complete four seasons of competition. Monday’s decision will allow for schools to self-apply waivers that would restore one season of competition for student-athletes who competed during the 2020 spring season that was cut short by COVID-19. Schools may also self-apply a one-year extension of eligibility for student-athletes in spring sports whose five-year “clock” would have ended in 2020.

Financial aid rules were also adjusted to help allow teams to carry more members on scholarship, helping programs accommodate both incoming recruits and student-athletes who wish to return for a final season of eligibility. In addition, the NCAA council increased the roster limit in baseball to accommodate for student-athletes impacted by the COVID-19. It’s the only spring sport with a roster limitation.

In a move to help colleges through the financial uncertainty ahead, the NCAA council’s vote gives schools the flexibility of allowing students whose eligibility would have run out this year to return for the 2020-21 season “without requiring that athletics aid be provided at the same level awarded for 2019-20.” That only applies to student-athletes whose eligibility was set to expire this season.

The NCAA’s Student Assitance Fund will also be available for schools to use to help pay for scholarships of student-athletes who choose to extend their eligibility into next season.

“The Council’s decision gives individual schools the flexibility to make decisions at a campus level,” Council chair M. Grace Calhoun, athletics director at Penn, said in a statement. “The Board of Governors encouraged conferences and schools to take action in the best interest of student-athletes and their communities, and now schools have the opportunity to do that.”

Spring season sports like baseball and softball were still competing in the opening weeks of their 2020 seasons when play was canceled. In men’s volleyball, the regular season was more than half over, and BYU had risen to No. 1 in the nation just days before the season was canceled.

Winter sports like men’s and women’s basketball had completed their regular seasons with many conferences in the middle of league tournaments when the NCAA Tournament was canceled.

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Salt Lake man charged with firing shots at man who offered ex-wife a ride

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SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake man who police say shot at another man who was giving his ex-wife a ride was charged with two felonies on Monday.

Mario E. Regules, 32, is charged in 3rd District Court with attempted murder, a first-degree felony, and possession of a firearm by a restricted person, a second-degree felony.

On March 13, a man said he was waiting outside the house of Regules’ ex-wife to pick her up. While he was waiting, he received a text message from the woman telling him “that her ex-husband, the defendant Mario Regules, was waiting close by. She told (the man) to leave or Regules would kill him,” according to charging documents.

Surveillance video from the area recorded Regules parked down the street, police say. When the victim left the ex-wife’s house, he drove past Regules. Surveillance video shows Regules pointing a gun at the man and firing, the charges state.

Five bullet holes were found on the victim’s car, “spanning from the front fender to the back door,” the charges state. The man, however, was not injured.

The man also told police that four months earlier while he was again at the ex-wife’s house, “Regules pointed a gun at (the man’s) head and told him that he was going to kill him,” according to charging documents.

Regules, a documents gang member, also had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to show up for court on charges of drug possession, according to court records. Prosecutors also noted in charging documents that Regules “has a history of committing violent offenses” and “is known to flee from law enforcement.”

“On two separate occasions the police have attempted to apprehend the defendant on this case and defendant had fled, resulting in two separate felony evading cases. The defendant has demonstrated through his actions that he is a danger to the community, and a flight risk,” the charges state.

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NCAA rules to give eligibility relief for student-athletes in spring sports, none for winter sports

The national office of the NCAA in Indianapolis is shown Thursday, March 12, 2020. The NCAA canceled the men’s and women’s Division I basketball tournaments amid coronavirus fears on Thursday. | Michael Conroy, AP

SALT LAKE CITY — NCAA Division I student-athletes who compete in spring sports will have an additional season of competition and an extension of their period of eligibility, the NCAA Division I Council ruled Monday as college athletics have been impacted by the conoravirus pandemic.

There won’t be any eligibility relief for student-athletes in winter sports, as the majority of their seasons were completed, the council also announced.

NCAA championships for both winter and spring sports were canceled March 12, as the pandemic began to initially make its impact in the sports world.

This story will be updated.

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NCAA rules to give eligibility relief for student-athletes in spring sports, none for winter sports

The national office of the NCAA in Indianapolis is shown Thursday, March 12, 2020. The NCAA canceled the men’s and women’s Division I basketball tournaments amid coronavirus fears on Thursday. | Michael Conroy, AP

SALT LAKE CITY — NCAA Division I student-athletes who compete in spring sports will have an additional season of competition and an extension of their period of eligibility, the NCAA Division I Council ruled Monday as college athletics have been impacted by the conoravirus pandemic.

There won’t be any eligibility relief for student-athletes in winter sports, as the majority of their seasons were completed, the council also announced.

NCAA championships for both winter and spring sports were canceled March 12, as the pandemic began to initially make its impact in the sports world.

This story will be updated.

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Utah businesses, employees must navigate family and sick leave in the COVID-19 outbreak

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SALT LAKE CITY — The coronavirus is putting pressure on employees forced to take time off to contend with the effects of the ongoing outbreak on themselves and their families, as well as employers who must manage their companies’ operations in the wake of legally-mandated leave.

Across the country and in Utah, companies and their workers are trying to balance the need to take time away from their jobs to cope with the impact of COVID-19 and keeping their jobs. While laws already exist to govern traditional sick leave, the pandemic has prompted even more regulations for employers to follow.

The Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 is a federal law applying to employers with 50 or more employees, or to all public employers. It requires these entities to provide to eligible employees unpaid time away from work up to 12 work weeks in a 12-month period of time, explained Ryan Nelson, president of Employers Council Utah. During that protected time, the worker’s health insurance and other benefits continue and they are provided reinstatement rights upon their return, he added.

“So when I come back from leave, I receive the same or an equivalent position to what I had when I left and I’m reinstated back into the workforce as if I’d never been gone,” he said. “The FMLA was available to an employee who had a serious health condition or who was caring for a parent, spouse or child with a serious health condition.”

Now Congress has added new protections developed specifically to address the effects of coronavirus on current workplaces, he noted. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act signed on March 18 also provides for paid family sick leave along with expanded emergency family and medical leave, he noted. It takes effect on April 1 and is required to be offered by an employer with 499 employees or less. The law also requires employers to provide their employees with the FFCRA poster detailing their rights under the new measure.

Employees who qualify must use the time off between April 1 and Dec. 31 of this year, Nelson said. Congress purposely created a sunrise and sunset on it because it related specifically to coronavirus, he said.

“(The law applies) regardless of how long the employee has been with the company. So my first day, for example, can be April 1 and on April 2 I could trigger the paid 10 days of sick leave and be gone even though I’ve only worked one day for the company,” Nelson explained. The provisions of the various acts work in tandem with the employment compensation system, he said.

“You have a lot of things working here at the same time. The paid sick leave and the paid FMLA contemplate an absence from work, so because I’m not working for these reasons I have some supplemental income coming in,” he explained. “It’s not going to be perhaps the same as I was making in wages, but it’s something that’s coming in. If I lose my job, or I’m laid off or I’m furloughed, then we have the unemployment compensation system that catches those instances and also the additional unemployment benefits. It’s an extraordinary effort in an extraordinary time.”

He said employers will have the benefit of using tax credits to offset some of the costs incurred through paying for the additional benefits received by the employees.

“Companies when they process their payroll, they are withholding Federal taxes from their employees wages. And then they put that into an electronic bundle and wire it to the IRS or submit it to the IRS as part of their payroll process,” Nelson said. “Well, the money to pay for the paid sick leave and the paid FMLA comes from that pot of money.”

Nelson said companies should seek advice from experienced counsel to ensure they are handling their workers’ leave properly and taking advantage of the credits being offered through the federal laws.

“There’s a limited window of time and that’s 30 days from the 18th of March,” he said. “So that clock is already ticking and employers are already expected to get their arms around this and understand what it means, when it applies, and how it works because April 1 it starts and employers need to be ready for that.”

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