NLRB Declines Jurisdiction In Northwestern Case
The National Labor Relations Board has declined to assert jurisdiction in the case involving Northwestern University football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships. As a result, the Board did...
View ArticleNLRB Declines to Exercise Jurisdiction Over Student-Athletes’ Attempt to...
Concluding that its assertion of jurisdiction “would not serve to promote stability in labor relations,” the National Labor Relations Board has declined to exercise authority over the College Athletes...
View ArticleLabor Board Reviews Northwestern Student-Athlete Policies
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in a recent Advice Memorandum (NLRB Case No. 13-CA-157467), has effectively ended the closely-watched enforcement action against Northwestern University on...
View ArticleNFL Players Association Executive Committee Member Files ULP Against Own...
Russell Okung, a current NFL player and member of the National Football League Players Association’s (NFLPA) executive committee, has filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge with the National Labor...
View ArticleNew Federal Legislation Proposal Authorizes Student-Athletes to Unionize
A group of Democratic U.S. Senators, led by Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) have introduced the College Athlete Right to Organize Act. The proposed legislation would...
View ArticleNLRB’s General Counsel Uses Prosecutorial Authority to Assert...
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...
View ArticleFirst NLRB Charge Filed Alleging Student-Athletes Are Employees Since NLRB...
Unable to find a student-athlete willing to file an unfair labor practice charge to support the effort of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to reclassify student-athletes...
View ArticleEffort to Classify Student-Athletes as Employees Continues With New Twist to...
Ongoing efforts to urge the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to classify student-athletes as employees continue with the latest unfair labor charge filed by the National College Players...
View ArticleCould Leagues and Teams be Joint Employers Before the NLRB?
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...
View ArticleCollege Athletes Closer to Being ‘Joint Employees’: NLRB Moves Case Against...
The fast-changing world of college athletics is about to collide with the ever-changing doctrine of joint employment. In January 2022, on behalf of football and basketball athletes at the University of...
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