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Making Sense of the Dartmouth Decision | Part 2

Bricker Graydon LLP on 2/26/2024

Having introduced the cast and set the scene in part 1 of this 3-part series, we turn now to the details. But before doing so, let’s get one thing out of the way – you likely won’t have unionized players on campus...more

The Saga Continues: Are Student Athletes Employees?

Bricker Graydon LLP on 3/27/2023

This question, once settled, has seen increased scrutiny in recent years both from the National Labor Relations Board and courts that have considered the issue.2 One of those courts – the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which...more

Could Leagues and Teams be Joint Employers Before the NLRB?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/14/2022

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to change the standard for determining if two employers may be joint employers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)....more

Out with student-athletes, long live Players at Academic Institutions

Bricker Graydon LLP on 10/12/2021

It’s difficult to imagine a four month period more impactful for the NCAA, if not for intercollegiate athletics on the whole, than the one we’re currently in. From the Supreme Court’s decision in Alston in June 2021, to the...more

NLRB General Counsel Seeks to Expand Labor Rights for Student Athletes

Lathrop GPM on 10/4/2021

On September 29, 2021, the General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), put colleges and universities on notice that she plans to prosecute cases against them for denying student athletes their rights...more

NLRB’s General Counsel Uses Prosecutorial Authority To Assert Student-Athletes Are Employees

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/4/2021

The on-and-off effort at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to classify “student-athletes” as “employees” has renewed. Although the National Labor Relations Act contains no formal recognition of student-athletes as...more

NLRB General Counsel Announces Intent to Treat Some College Athletes as Employees

Miller Canfield on 9/30/2021

On September 29, 2021, National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum describing her intent to treat scholarship athletes at Division-I Football Bowl Subdivision ("FBS")...more

Will the New Administration Trump Columbia University?

Saul Ewing LLP on 2/14/2017

GOP Reacts Swiftly to NLRB General Counsel’s Memorandum Regarding the Status of Division I Scholarship Football Players at Private Universities - In a memorandum dated January 31, 2017, National Labor Relations Board...more

The Lessons (and Wisdom) of Rihanna

Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/13/2015

Everyone these days seems to think they are entitled to more money, from the United States Department of Labor (DOL) claiming that there really are no independent contractors to the thousands of United Automobile Workers...more

NLRB Ruling on Northwestern Football Players Highlights Need for Congressional Action on College Sports

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/23/2015

In August, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or "the Board") unanimously ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to decide whether college football players at Northwestern University are "employees" under the National Labor...more

The NLRB Unanimously Shuts Down Attempt to Unionize Northwestern’s Scholarship Football Players

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 8/19/2015

In a long-awaited decision issued on August 17, 2015, the five-member National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) unanimously shut down an attempt by Northwestern University’s scholarship football players to become the first...more

College Athletes as Employees

Miller Canfield on 2/17/2015

Spring 2014 saw the first ever attempt to form a union among Division I college athletes, specifically the football team at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The National Labor Relation Board’s (“NLRB” or “Board”)...more

Amicus Briefs Submitted to NLRB on Appeal of Northwestern University Decision

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 7/9/2014

As previously noted in this blog, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has sought amicus curiae briefing in the Northwestern University and College Athletes Players Association matter on review of the NLRB Regional...more

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