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Ogletree Deakins Insights
NLRB Regional Director Rules Dartmouth College Basketballs Are Employees, Setting Up Potential Landmark Board Case
By By: Bethany S. Wagner, Neil V. McKittrick, Publisher, Zachary V. Zagger
Quick Hits An NLRB regional director determined that college basketball players at a private university are employees under the NLRA and can unionize. The ruling tees up the issue of…
HR Law Watch
NLRB Regional Director Rules Dartmouth’s Basketball Players are School Employees
By Justen R. Barbierri, Denise M. Keyser
On Monday, February 5, a Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a ruling that Dartmouth College basketball players are employees of the school, allowing them to…
School Law
Regional Director of NLRB’s Region 1 Office Upends College Sports by Declaring That Student Athletes Are Employees
By Jarad M. Lucan, Sarah N. Niemiroski
On Monday, February 5, 2024, the Region 1 Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a Decision and Direction of Election that permits the Dartmouth College men’s basketball…
Employment Law Letter
Regional Director of NLRB’s Region 1 Office Upends College Sports by Declaring That Student Athletes Are Employees
By Jarad M. Lucan, Sarah N. Niemiroski
On Monday, February 5, 2024, the Region 1 Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a Decision and Direction of Election that permits the Dartmouth College men’s basketball…
Management & Labor Report
NLRB Official Finds Dartmouth Basketball Players are “Employees” and Authorizes a Union Vote
In a hotly contested case, the NLRB regional director for the region covering most of New England has found that Basketball Players at Dartmouth are the university’s “employees” under the…
Labor & Employment Insights
No (Union) Shirt? No Problem: Fifth Circuit Strips Down NLRB’s Employee Uniform Rules
By Josh Kleppin, Anne R. Yuengert
Can you enforce your uniform policy, even if that means an employee can’t wear a union t-shirt? Earlier this month, in Tesla, Inc. v. NLRB, the Fifth Circuit looked at…
Cultiva Law Blog
Cannabis Unionization in Utah
By Aaron Pelley
As the American cannabis industry continues to expand at the rapid succession that it is, the number of jobs and other employment opportunities created from these expansions are simultaneously growing…
GT L&E Blog
California Governor Signs Bill Allowing Staff to Unionize…in 2026
By Timothy Long, Matthew J. Weber
“Hot Labor Summer” – so dubbed due to strikes by the Writers Guild, Screen Actors Guild, Southern California Hotel Workers, health care workers from multiple unions, and United Auto Workers…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
NLRB Returns to Ambush Representation Election Rules
By Robert T. Dumbacher, Christy E. Bergstresser
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) recently adopted a Final Rule regarding representation-case procedures (“2023 Rule”). The 2023 Rule substantially rescinds the 2019 amendments to the representation-case procedures (“2019 Rule”),…
Construction Law Zone
Construction Employers Beware: New, Easier Union Representation Process
This week we are pleased to have a guest post by Robinson+Cole Labor Relations Group chair Natale V. DiNatale. The NLRB has reversed decades of precedent and made it far easier for unions…