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NLRB Pushes Schools to Release Student Information to Unions: Navigating Privacy Considerations in Light of Recent Guidance

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Private colleges and universities employing student workers face the unique challenge of balancing privacy obligations and a growing push from federal labor authorities to release student information to unions. Recent...more

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Are Revenue Generating NCAA Student-Athletes Employees? California NLRB Office Says YES.

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Last week, Region 31 of the National Labor Relations Board, based in Los Angeles, filed a complaint (Case No. 31-CA-290326) alleging that the University of Southern California (USC), the Pac 12 (Pac-12) Conference and the...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

NLRB GC Files Complaint Alleging USC’s Football and Basketball Players are Employees

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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

Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP

Your Undergraduate Students Are Preparing For Unionization. Are You?

In recent months and weeks, undergraduate student union organizing has picked up pace rapidly. On March 22, 2022, Wesleyan University voluntarily recognized a bargaining unit of undergraduate resident advisors following a...more

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The Ramifications of College Athletes Being “Employees”

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Consider this: the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has opined that some student-athletes at the collegiate level are “employees” for purposes of the right to engage in protected concerted activity, and...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Are Student-Athletes Employees or Students? The NLRB General Counsel Issues Non-Binding Guidance

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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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

NLRB GC Memo Says Certain College Athletes Are Employees, Have Right to Unionize

Key Points - The NLRB’s General Counsel issued a memorandum providing her position that the NLRA protects student-athletes who “perform services for their colleges and the NCAA, in return for compensation” and are...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Federal Legislators Tell NLRB GC Griffin to Rescind His Education Report or Step Aside

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Congressional Committee Head Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Subcommittee Chair Tim Walberg (R-MI) ask NLRB General Counsel Griffin to either immediately rescind his January 31 report regarding the purported...more

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NLRB Moves Closer to Finding that Scholarship Student-Athletes are Employees

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On September 22, 2016, the Associate General Counsel (“AGC”) for the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB,” or the “Board”) issued an Advice Memorandum indicating that a number of policies in the Northwestern University...more

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