NLRB: Northwestern football players are university employees

[JURIST] The Chicago office for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) [official website] on Wednesday ruled [report, pdf] that football players at Northwestern University qualify as employees, and therefore have the right to unionize. In its finding, the NLRB used the "right to control" test, which considers a variety of factors in determining the level of control an employer has over an alleged employee. First, the board found that "grant-in-aid scholarship football players perform services for the benefit of the...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/03/national-labor-relations-board-finds-northwestern-football-players-are-university-employees.php

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