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Film Room: DC activity—proposed student-athlete employment law and potential NIL executive order

In this week’s Film Room, we unpack the potential impact of DC activity, including: - a proposed federal law prohibiting student-athletes from being employees - a potential executive order regarding NIL House—Quick...more

Alston & Bird

How College Legal Departments Can Prepare for Changes in Student-Athletes’ Employment Status

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Our Education Group discusses how college and university legal counsel can track and prepare for changes in student-athletes’ employment status....more

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NLRB Acting GC: Student-Athletes Are Not Employees

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On February 18, 2025, National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel William Cowen rescinded a September 2021 memorandum in which former Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo declared college athletes should be...more

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The Labor Law Insider: Student Athletes as Employees – Changes and Updates on the Dartmouth Case, NIL Litigation

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Labor Law Insider host Tom Godar is joined by attorneys Tyler Paetkau and Jason Montgomery to discuss the ever-changing labor law implications for college athletes. We dive into the issue of whether student athletes have the...more

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Organized Labor Ups the Ante with Push to Turn Student-Athletes Into Employees

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The ongoing battle to turn NCAA student-athletes into employees continued this week. As reported here early this year, in February, Laura Sacks, Regional Director of Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board, issued a...more

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Game, Set,… and On to the Match: Third Circuit Breaks Precedent, Recognizing That Collegiate Athletes May Assert a Claim Under the...

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On Thursday, the Third Circuit held that collegiate athletes may assert a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The decision in Johnson v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, — F.4th –, 2024 WL 3367646 (3d Cir. July 11,...more

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More Money, More Problems for Collegiate Athletics?

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The ball keeps rolling on potentially big compensation for college athletes. In a landmark proposed settlement (Settlement), the National College Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten...more

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The Great Trick Play: The Dartmouth College Men’s Basketball Team Votes to Unionize

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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

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True March Madness: NLRB Declares That Dartmouth Basketball Players Are Employees

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In December, this blog alerted readers that in Memorandum GC 21-08, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) General Counsel Abruzzo declared that certain student-athletes “at Academic Institutions are employees under the...more

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U.S. Senate Committee Hears Testimony About the Need for Uniform NIL Regulation That Would Exempt Student-Athletes From Federal...

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On October 17, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from witnesses about the need for reform in college athletics, including the possibility of establishing a national standard for regulating Name, Image, and...more

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Are Student Athletes Considered Employees Under the Fair Labor Standards Act?

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Q: Are student athletes considered employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)? ...more

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National Labor Relations Board Files Complaint against NCAA over Status of College Athletes

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On May 18, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) regional office in Los Angeles filed a complaint against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Pac-12 Conference, and the University of Southern...more

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NLRB GC Files Complaint Alleging USC’s Football and Basketball Players are Employees

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Are Division I athletes who play football and basketball “student-athletes” or “employees”? The National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel (GC) has filed a complaint against the NCAA, the PAC-12, and the University of...more

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Pay-for-Play: The Status of College Athletes as Employees

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In a potentially game-changing move, the National College Players Association (NCPA), filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) Region 32 against the University of Southern...more

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NLRB General Counsel to Pursue Federal Labor Claims of Student Athletes

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Last week, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo joined the agency’s regional prosecutors in concluding that some NCAA student athletes are employees, instructing the Board’s regional prosecutors to pursue unfair labor claims...more

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The Top 16 Workplace Law Stories from November 2021

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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