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Third Circuit Holds That NCAA Athletes May Qualify as Employees Under the FLSA

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Recently, in Johnson v. NCAA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that, depending upon the surrounding circumstances, student-athletes may qualify as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This...more

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Game Time Decision: Another District Court Will Decide if College Athletes Are Employees

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U.S. college athletes may soon be considered employees entitled to minimum wage under federal law. In a recent decision, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that college athletes could theoretically be considered...more

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Unions for College Athletes – Some Food for Thought

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The Dartmouth College Men’s Basketball Team recently petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for recognition of their rights as “employees” of the College to form a union and bargain over their relationship to...more

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Are Your Student-Athletes Employees? NLRB Regional Director Says So

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A National Labor Relations Board Regional Director recently ruled that non-scholarship college basketball players are “employees” under federal labor law, setting the table for a potential seismic shift in the way your...more

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Dartmouth Basketball Players Vote to Be First College Athletes Represented by a Union

On March 5, 2024, players on the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team voted to unionize, making the group the first college sports team to do so in the United States. Dartmouth College has already filed an appeal with the...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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Making Sense of the Dartmouth Decision | Part 2

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Having introduced the cast and set the scene in part 1 of this 3-part series, we turn now to the details. But before doing so, let’s get one thing out of the way – you likely won’t have unionized players on campus...more

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Making Sense of the Dartmouth Decision | Part 1

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It wasn’t cash, an NIL deal, or even an athletic scholarship, but it was compensation according to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 1 Director, Laura Sacks. By providing its men’s basketball team with apparel,...more

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Student-Athletes Score Big for Union Rights as NLRB Regional Director Recognizes Dartmouth’s Basketball Team as ‘Employees’

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Higher education has seen a marked increase in labor and union activities on public and private campuses, even reaching historic levels in the past couple of years with campus strikes and organizing by student workers....more

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Game Changer: NLRB Rules College Basketball Players Are Employees and Can Unionize

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For years now, the tide of college athletics has been shifting toward student-athlete representation and empowerment. Now, in what might become a landmark decision, a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board...more

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NLRB Holds That College Basketball Players Are 'Employees'

This week, the regional director for Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board issued an opinion that could usher in a wave of unionization efforts among college athletes. Fifteen members of the Dartmouth men’s...more

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NLRB Regional Director Rules Dartmouth College Basketball Players Are Employees, Setting Up Potential Landmark Board Case

On February 5, 2024, a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Boston ruled that men’s college basketball players at Dartmouth College are “employees” within the meaning of the National Labor...more

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NLRB Regional Director Determines Dartmouth Basketball Players Are Employees

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In a much-anticipated decision issued on Monday, February 5, 2024, Region 01 of the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”) decided that the players on the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team qualify as employees...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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Are Student-Athletes Employees or Students? The NLRB General Counsel Issues Non-Binding Guidance

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On September 29, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new General Counsel issued a memorandum that student-athletes at private colleges and universities should be considered employees under the National Labor...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

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Protected Concerted Athletic Activity? Labor Memo Calls for Employee Status for College Athletes

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A new memo from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) could pave the way for student-athletes at private universities to unionize, or at least fall within the jurisdiction of the NLRB when engaging in concerted activity....more

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BREAKING: General Counsel Abruzzo Announces that College Athletes Are Employees

Yesterday, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a very significant memorandum on the status of college athletes as “employees” under the National Labor Relations Act. Statutory Rights of Players at Academic Institutions...more

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NLRB Issues Proposed Rule to Clarify Status of Private University and College Students Working in Connection with Their Studies

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On September 20, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) issued a proposed rule that would exclude from the National Labor Relations Act (Act) undergraduate and graduate students at private colleges and universities...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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From The Playing Field To The Courtroom: The State Of Current Legal Challenges Brought By Student-Athletes

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As the U.S. Supreme Court stated in a 1984 decision involving the University of Oklahoma, there exists in this country a “revered tradition of amateurism in college sports.” Despite this tradition, there have been an...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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NLRB General Counsel Concludes Division I Scholarship Football Players are Employees under Labor Law

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Scholarship football players in Division I FBS private sector colleges and universities are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard F. Griffin has concluded....more

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Northwestern University Football Players Can’t Vote for Union Representation …but it’s not over until it’s over…

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Depending on your allegiance, “the Play” was one of either the most memorable or the most infamous moments in the history of college football. It happened in the final seconds of 1982’s annual “Big Game” between the Stanford...more

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NLRB Punts on College Athlete Unions

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On August 17, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board issued the long awaited decision in the Northwestern University football union case. 362 NLRB No. 167 (8/17/2015). In a rare display of unanimity, the five members of...more

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