NLRB, Religious Schools, Pacific Lutheran University

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 Refuses to Meddle In Religious Institutions' Affairs

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 6/16/2020

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

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

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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/16/2020

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

NLRB Disentangles Itself From Religious Education Institutions

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/16/2020

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

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/16/2020

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

Reversing Course, NLRB Determines Not To Exercise Jurisdiction Over Religious Institutions

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/15/2020

Overruling a controversial 2014 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision, the NLRB has adopted a new test for determining whether it will exercise jurisdiction over religious institutions. Bethany College, 369 NLRB No....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

In Reversal, NLRB Decides It Lacks Jurisdiction Over Religious College

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/12/2020

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

D.C. Circuit Vacates NLRB Decision, Reinforcing Board’s Limited Jurisdiction over Religious Schools

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 2/3/2020

Similar to other disagreements between the NLRB and D.C. Circuit, a tension developed during the last several years regarding the appropriate standard to determine whether teachers at religious schools are covered by the NLRA...more

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

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update on 3/22/2019

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

NLRB General Counsel Rescinds Controversial Memo Regarding Section 7 Rights of University Faculty, Student Assistants, and...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/15/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 1, 2017, the newly-confirmed General Counsel of the National Relations Board, Peter Robb, issued a memorandum to the NLRB regional offices listing legal issues that should be submitted for...more

NLRB General Counsel Rescinds Controversial Memo Regarding Section 7 Rights Of University Faculty, Student Assistants, And...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/14/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 1, 2017, the newly-confirmed General Counsel of the National Relations Board, Peter Robb, issued a memorandum to the NLRB regional offices listing legal issues that should be submitted for...more

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

FordHarrison on 4/13/2017

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

The NLRB Rules That It Will Assert Jurisdiction Over Nonteaching Employees of Religious Institutions And Nonprofit Religious...

Franczek P.C. on 4/12/2017

In its 2014 landmark decision in Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that it will assert jurisdiction over faculty at religious colleges and universities unless the college or...more

NLRB General Counsel Issues Report on NLRA Protections For Faculty and Students

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/2/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: In a last minute attempt to leave his mark on the NLRB, the Board’s outgoing General Counsel issued a report attempting to expand the rights of university faculty and students, including scholarship...more

A Break From The Trend? NLRB Regional Director Finds Carroll College Exempt From Board Jurisdiction Under Pacific Lutheran

Franczek P.C. on 1/27/2016

Union organizing directed at religious college and university faculties has gained momentum since the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) issued its decision in Pacific Lutheran University (“PLU”) in 2014. In PLU, the...more

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