On July 11, 2024, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in Johnson v. NCAA that certain college athletes may qualify as employees of their schools or the NCAA under the Fair Labor...more
7/18/2024
/ College Athletes ,
Colleges ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Minimum Wage ,
NCAA ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Student Athletes ,
Universities ,
Wage and Hour
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On June 23, 2022, the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the U.S. Department of Education released its proposed changes to Title IX regulations, which codify protections for LGBTQ+ students from discrimination based...more
As we previously posted, the City of Philadelphia is mandating healthcare workers and those who work, volunteer, or attend classes at higher education institutions in the city receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The initial...more
As we previously posted, the City of Philadelphia announced that vaccines will be mandatory for healthcare workers and those at colleges and universities in the city, absent a religious or medical exemption, beginning on...more
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The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari in the case of Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board on June 28, 2021. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said that they would have granted the...more
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a proposed rule that would remove graduate and undergraduate students who perform work for pay in conjunction with their academic studies from the definition of an...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has issued its much anticipated precedential opinion upholding denial of a preliminary injunction against a Pennsylvania school district's policy allowing transgender high...more
6/22/2018
/ Educational Institutions ,
Equal Protection ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Identity ,
Gloucester County School Board v G.G. ,
LGBTQ ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
School Restrooms ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Sexual Stereotyping ,
Students ,
Title IX ,
Transgender
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court decision holding that student athletes' participation in college sports does not make them school employees entitled to compensation, a decision that should...more
12/8/2016
/ College Athletes ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employee Definition ,
Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
NCAA ,
Remuneration ,
School Sports ,
Student Athletes ,
Universities ,
Wage and Hour