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On August 9, 2024, the NLRB denied Pardee RAND Graduate School’s (“RAND”) request for review of a regional director’s Decision and Direction of Election (DDE) finding that a petitioned-for unit of graduate policy researchers...more
The ongoing battle to turn NCAA student-athletes into employees continued this week. As reported here early this year, in February, Laura Sacks, Regional Director of Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board, issued a...more
Recently, in Johnson v. NCAA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that, depending upon the surrounding circumstances, student-athletes may qualify as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This...more
On Thursday, the Third Circuit held that collegiate athletes may assert a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The decision in Johnson v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, — F.4th –, 2024 WL 3367646 (3d Cir. July 11,...more
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has long argued that college athletes are amateurs exempt from minimum wage and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Until last week, courts around the United...more
In December, this blog alerted readers that in Memorandum GC 21-08, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) General Counsel Abruzzo declared that certain student-athletes “at Academic Institutions are employees under the...more
In a historic election on March 5, 2024, the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team voted 13-2 to unionize. The vote took place exactly one month after an NLRB regional director ruled that Dartmouth men’s basketball players...more
In September 2023, fifteen members of Dartmouth College’s varsity men’s basketball team sought to join Service Employees International Union, Local 560 (“Union”), which is the “exclusive representative” of Dartmouth...more
It wasn’t cash, an NIL deal, or even an athletic scholarship, but it was compensation according to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 1 Director, Laura Sacks. By providing its men’s basketball team with apparel,...more
Higher education has seen a marked increase in labor and union activities on public and private campuses, even reaching historic levels in the past couple of years with campus strikes and organizing by student workers....more
Summary: On February 5, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB or Board) Regional Director for Region 1 (Boston) announced that Dartmouth College men’s basketball players are employees under the National Labor...more
On Monday, February 5, a Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a ruling that Dartmouth College basketball players are employees of the school, allowing them to vote on unionizing. The NLRB’s...more
On February 5, 2024, the NLRB’s Regional Director for Region 1, Laura Sacks, issued a written decision finding that Dartmouth’s men’s basketball players are employees under the National Labor Relations Act. Based on their...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been pushing hard to turn certain Division I college-level student-athletes into employees, at least for purposes of organizing and collective bargaining rights under the National...more
On May 18, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) regional office in Los Angeles filed a complaint against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Pac-12 Conference, and the University of Southern...more
Are Division I athletes who play football and basketball “student-athletes” or “employees”? The National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel (GC) has filed a complaint against the NCAA, the PAC-12, and the University of...more
All employers are faced with challenges and compliance risks associated with providing benefits to their employees. However, these risks and challenges can vary greatly by industry. Employers (and their advisors) who...more
On February 8, 2022, the National College Players Association (NCPA), an advocacy group for college athletes, filed unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the National...more
On September 29, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new General Counsel issued a memorandum that student-athletes at private colleges and universities should be considered employees under the National Labor...more
On September 20, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) issued a proposed rule that would exclude from the National Labor Relations Act (Act) undergraduate and graduate students at private colleges and universities...more
As anticipated, today the National Labor Relations Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) proposing a regulation which would establish that students at private colleges and universities who perform any...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
As we discussed in an earlier client alert, the National Labor Relations Board announced in May that it would be issuing proposed rules that would establish a “standard for determining whether students who perform services at...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Ninth Circuit has held that, under federal and California law, college student-athletes are not employees of either the NCAA or the Pac-12, the regulatory bodies that govern college sports....more
“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” This quote (attributed to Brazilian author Paulo Cuelho) comes to mind with last month’s filing of yet another...more