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Labor Board Withdraws Proposed Rule Excluding Student Workers From NLRA Coverage

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 3/15/2021

In an interesting turn foreshadowing a coming change in its leadership, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has withdrawn the rule it proposed in September 2019 to exclude student workers at private colleges and...more

Student-Employee Unions: Should Universities Expect a Double U-Turn?

Fisher Phillips on 9/12/2017

Until recently, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) long held that private university student-employees were not considered “employees” under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) because the relationship with their...more

Are College Athletes Employees? Board Counsel Tackles Controversial Issue

Williams Mullen on 2/22/2017

A January memorandum issued by Richard Griffen, the current General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, has kicked off a debate over whether and when university students should be deemed “employees” who can assert...more

The NLRB Throws a Flag on NCAA Division I Football and Explains Some Rules to Colleges and Universities

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/6/2017

In an official memorandum entitled “General Counsel’s Report on the Statutory Rights of University Faculty and Students in the Unfair Labor Practice Context,” the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Richard...more

The NLRB Recognizes Student-Employees: The Effect of Columbia University on Private Universities

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/14/2016

In August 2016, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) held in a 3-1 decision that undergraduate and graduate student assistants at private colleges and universities are employees under Section 2(3) of the...more

NLRB Allows Student Assistants to Unionize, Signals Commitment to Expanding Its Reach

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/2/2016

Last month, the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB” or “the Board”) reversed standing precedent and held that student assistants at private universities, including both graduate and undergraduate teaching and research...more