The Dartmouth men’s basketball team is scheduled to tip-off its 2024-25 NCAA season. Not surprisingly, they will do so without a labor contract, notwithstanding the team’s historic vote last March to unionize under federal...more
10/22/2024
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Basketball ,
College Athletes ,
Employee Definition ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
NCAA ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
SCOTUS ,
SEIU ,
Sports ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Unions
Did you hear the news? The members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team have been deemed employees of the school and voted to unionize under federal labor law. How could you miss it? The crush of media reports has...more
4/2/2024
/ Antitrust Litigation ,
Collective Bargaining ,
College Athletes ,
Employee Rights ,
Employees ,
Enforcement ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Name and Likeness ,
NCAA ,
NLRB ,
Unions
As summer turns to fall, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, with choreographed fanfare, celebrated Labor Day by signing several employment-related bills into law. Notably missing from the Governor’s autograph spree was...more
9/19/2023
/ Compensation & Benefits ,
Gender Identity ,
General Meetings ,
Larceny ,
New York ,
NLRB ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Political Speech ,
Religious Beliefs ,
State Labor Laws ,
Unions ,
Wage Theft
If college athletes are employees under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), then why not under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”)? That proposition predictably follows from the recent determination by the Chicago...more