Jennifer Cluverius and Patrick Wilson Published in Law360 on How Dartmouth Ruling Fits in NLRB Student-Athlete Playbook
Employment and labor law attorneys Jennifer Cluverius and Patrick Wilson were recently published in Law360’s Expert Analysis section.
This is an expansion of the article originally published by Maynard Nexsen, "Collegiate Athletes Deemed “Employees” Under the NLRA: Dartmouth Basketball Players Cleared for Unionization Vote," which can be seen linked here.
Excerpt
On Feb. 5, the National Labor Relations Board Boston office director Laura Sacks issued a groundbreaking decision in Trustees of Dartmouth College.[1] Rejecting Dartmouth's argument that the players are not "employees" under the NLRA, Sacks found Dartmouth's men's basketball team — which consists of 15 student-athletes — to be an appropriate unit under the NLRA, and directed that a union election be held.
Read full article on Law360 here.
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