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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 -
Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Sixth Circuit Sends Ohio State Graduate Student’s Employment Status Case Under Title VII to a Jury Trial

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On August 28, 2024, the Sixth Circuit in Huang v. Ohio State Univ., 6th Cir., No. 23-03469 (Aug. 28, 2024) –—in a case with broader implications for the employment status of graduate students—reversed the Southern District of...more

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Making Sense of the Dartmouth Decision | Part 3

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In Part One of our 3-part series, we touched on the background and landscape that led up to the Dartmouth decision. In Part Two, we explored the decision itself and pulled on the strings that the National Labor Relations...more

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The Fight Continues for Employee Status – Dartmouth Men's Basketball Players Are Employees Under the NLRA

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Summary: On February 5, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB or Board) Regional Director for Region 1 (Boston) announced that Dartmouth College men’s basketball players are employees under the National Labor...more

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NLRB Executing Its Gameplan to Treat Student Athletes as Employees

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We previously reported on General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo's announcement of the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) gameplan to treat certain student athletes at private colleges and universities (together, "Academic...more

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Students or Employees?: The National College Players Association Files Charges Asserting Student Athletes are Employees under the...

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On February 8, 2022, the National College Players Association (NCPA), an advocacy group for college athletes, filed unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the National...more

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Pencils, Paper, and Now NLRA Legal Protections – New General Counsel Memorandum Provides College Student Athletes with a Very...

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On September 29, 2021, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Jennifer A. Abruzzo released a nine-page memorandum taking the unequivocal position that “certain Players at Academic Institutions” are...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

NLRB Proposes Rule to Settle Once and For All: Student Teaching and Research Assistants Are Not “Employees”

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As anticipated, today the National Labor Relations Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) proposing a regulation which would establish that students at private colleges and universities who perform any...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New NLRB Rule Would Stop Graduate Student Unions in Their Tracks

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Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a proposed rule that would remove graduate and undergraduate students who perform work for pay in conjunction with their academic studies from the definition of an...more

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NLRB Proposes Regulation to Prevent Students From Organizing

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As we discussed in an earlier client alert, the National Labor Relations Board announced in May that it would be issuing proposed rules that would establish a “standard for determining whether students who perform services at...more

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Beltway Buzz - May 2019 #3

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Spring Regulatory Agenda Issued. On May 22, 2019, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) released the administration’s Spring 2019 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. Before diving into the...more

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The NLRB Opens the Door to Union Organizing Among Undergraduate Resident Advisors at Colleges and Universities

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In what will come as no surprise to even the most casual labor law observer, last Friday an Acting Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board created a new inroad for unions to organize undergraduate resident...more

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Amicus Briefs Submitted to NLRB on Appeal of Northwestern University Decision

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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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Is the NLRB’s Brown University Decision on Its Last Leg?

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The National Labor Relations Board’s treatment of college and university students as “employees” covered by the National Labor Relations Act has been the subject of a tortured history. In the Fall of 2000, in a case...more

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What Exactly is the Long-Term Impact of the NLRB’s Decision? Part 3

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While the Northwestern decision applies to private universities, there is a good chance that this rule would affect public universities as well. States have individual statutes and related administrative bodies that govern...more

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