Alerts10.11.21

Are College Athletes Employees? Courts and the NLRB Weigh In

Basketball - Are College Athletes Employees?

A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that a group of college athletes plausibly pled they are employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and allowed their lawsuit against their universities to proceed 

Five prominent universities are asking the U.S. Court of of Appeals for the Third Circuit for interlocutory review of an adverse ruling in a potential watershed lawsuit over whether student athletes can be considered employees under federal law. 

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