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An Independent School’s Guide to the New DOL Overtime Rule

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In a 2024 Final Rule, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it would be increasing in two phases the salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime....more

TNG Consulting

Maybe We’re Looking at Plagiarism All Wrong?

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The world is blessed and cursed by nuance. Most issues are complicated, and truly understanding them requires expertise, depth of insight, familiarity, and an appreciation for how nuances impact the issue and its context....more

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Free Speech & Governance Policies: On (and Off) Campus

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Good nonprofit governance is challenging. It involves crafting and implementing smart policies that can be clearly communicated and anticipate future problems. This is easier said than done, especially with unpaid boards and,...more

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University of Connecticut Loses Termination Arbitration With Former Coach

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After a nearly four-year battle, delayed by COVID-19 and the untimely death of the initial arbitrator assigned to the case, former University of Connecticut men’s basketball head coach Kevin Ollie has been determined to have...more

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Faculty Retirement Incentive Programs: What Does the Law Permit?

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A recent survey of full-time college and university faculty found that, as of the beginning of the 2020-2021 academic year, approximately 25% of those surveyed expected to retire later than they had anticipated before the...more

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NLRB Drops its “Subgroup Majority Status” Test to Determine Whether Faculty are Exempt Managerial Employees

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On February 19, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) modified its test for determining whether faculty at private colleges and universities should be excluded as managerial employees from the right to union...more

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Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules That School District Administrators Can Be Liable for Failing to Prevent Teacher’s Physical...

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In a decision dated August 28, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that school district faculty/administrators could be liable for a former teacher's physical abuse against a student where the...more

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NLRB Severely Limits Jurisdiction Over Religious Schools

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On June 10, 2020, a three-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision limiting its own jurisdiction over the faculty of self-identified religious educational institutions. ...more

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NLRB Refuses to Meddle In Religious Institutions' Affairs

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The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) determined last week that it has no jurisdiction over faculty members at religious institutions of higher education in Bethany College, 369 NLRB No. 98. The decision overrules a...more

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NLRB Reverses Course, Holds it has no Jurisdiction over Faculty at Religious Institutions of Higher Education

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In a decision released on June 10, 2020, the National Labor Relations Board reversed its prior position regarding whether the Board may exercise jurisdiction over faculty at religious institutions of higher education.  The...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

In An Important Ruling for Religious Educational Institutions, The National Labor Relations Board Overrules Prior Decision and...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued an important ruling strongly protecting the First Amendment rights of religious educational institutions, holding that “while the [National Labor...more

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NLRB Disentangles Itself From Religious Education Institutions

On June 10, 2020, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) renounced jurisdiction over faculty employees at most religious educational institutions. The Bethany College case overruled the NLRB’s 2014 Pacific Lutheran...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The NLRB Rethinks Its Position on When It May Assert Jurisdiction Over Religious Schools in Labor Matters Involving Faculty...

On June 10, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) issued Bethany College, 369 NLRB No. 98, in which it held that it does not have jurisdiction over matters concerning teachers or faculty at bona fide religious...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

NLRB Establishes Bright-Line Test Denying Jurisdiction over Religious Educational Institutions

We have seen this movie before. NLRB precedent established by the Board under the prior Administration conflicted sharply with decisions by the D.C. Circuit reviewing the Board. Then the current iteration of the Board...more

Holland & Knight LLP

In Reversal, NLRB Decides It Lacks Jurisdiction Over Religious College

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Overruling a prior decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has determined that it cannot exercise jurisdiction over the faculty of Bethany College, a college associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of...more

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No NLRB Rights For Adjunct Faculty At Religious University

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently issued a decision in Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit v. NLRB, which resulted in the denial of collective bargaining rights to adjunct faculty members employed by...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

AAU Harassment Survey Shows Higher Levels of Faculty Misconduct Against Grad Students

Report on Research Compliance - Although students remain far-and-away the largest perpetrators of harassment, assault and stalking against both undergraduates and graduates, teaching assistants and faculty are more likely...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Lessons Learned about Equal Pay in Higher Education

The #MeToo movement has brought public awareness to claims concerning pay disparity based on gender. As more and more women bring equal pay claims and enter into hefty settlements, the general public begins to internalize the...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

D.C. Circuit Weighs In On NLRB Test For Adjunct Faculty Unionization

Colleges and universities should take note of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s recent decision in University of Southern California v. National Labor Relations Board, Case No. 17-1149 (D.C. Cir. Mar. 12, 2019)...more

Akerman LLP

20-Day Strike Ends At University As Unionization On Campuses Picks Up

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On February 11, 2019, Wright State University’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a deal to end a 20-day faculty union strike by the university’s tenured, tenure-eligible, and non-tenure eligible faculty. The...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

System-Wide SUNY Policy Will Require All SUNY Campuses to Develop a Sexual and Romantic Relationship Policy by March 1, 2019

On October 9, 2018, the State University of New York (“SUNY”) Board of Trustees adopted a new resolution imposing new policy requirements with regard to consensual or amorous relationships among faculty, staff, and students. ...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Visa Options and Immigration Strategies for Colleges and Universities

U.S. colleges and universities have many visa options that enable them to employ diverse and talented faculty from around the world. This article will introduce the primary nonimmigrant (temporary) visa categories used by...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Duke and UNC: No-Poach Case Update

Last month, we reported on a partial settlement in an antitrust case alleging that entities within the Duke and the University of North Carolina systems agreed not to hire each other’s medical personnel unless the lateral...more

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Court Certifies Class In Duke-UNC No-Hire Workplace Antitrust Lawsuit

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On February 1, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina entered an order granting in part, and denying in part, the plaintiff’s motion for class certification in a no-hire...more

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NLRB Asserts Jurisdiction Over Non-Teaching Employees of a Private Religious University

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In an April 6, 2017, decision, Saint Xavier University, 365 NLRB No. 64 (2017), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that it was appropriate to exercise jurisdiction over a petitioned-for unit of housekeeping...more

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