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The National Labor Relations Board is an independent agency of the United States federal government created in 1935 as part of the National Labor Relations Act. The Board consists of five presidentially-appointed members, who are charged with overseeing union elections and hearing complaints of unfair labor practices under the NLRA. less -

NLRB Judge’s Decision Tees Up Reconsideration of Test for Religious Exemption

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/7/2023

On February 23, 2023, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that a Catholic university in Florida is exempt from the Board’s jurisdiction as a religious institution. But the case tees...more

Board Decides Religious Educational Institutions Not Subject To Labor Laws While Supreme Court Grapples With Ministerial Exception

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/22/2020

Key Points- •In the June 10, 2020, National Labor Relations Board (Board) decision Bethany College, the Board reversed its own 2014 decision, Pacific Lutheran University, and held that the Board lacks jurisdiction over...more

NLRB Severely Limits Jurisdiction Over Religious Schools

Cozen O'Connor on 6/17/2020

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

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

Littler on 6/16/2020

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

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

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 6/12/2020

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

NLRB Expands Jurisdiction in Church-Operated Schools, Distinguishing Between "Religious" and "Secular" Instruction in Faculty...

Littler on 9/21/2016

In two recent cases, the National Labor Relations Board distinguished between faculty members providing secular instruction and those providing religious instruction, in concluding that only those providing religious...more

Labor Board Will Decide Organizing Rights of Non-Teaching Employees at Religious Colleges, Universities

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/25/2016

The National Labor Relations Board is set to decide if the same test used to determine whether teaching employees of a religious school are subject to the Board’s jurisdiction should be extended to non-teaching employees....more

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