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Earlier today, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) issued its long awaited decision in Columbia University. Not surprisingly, the Board, in a 3-1 decision, overturned 12 years of precedent by ruling that “student assistants” (including assistants engaged in research funded by external grants) who have a “common law” employment relationship with their university are … Continue Reading
It did not take long for the fallout from the NLRB’s Pacific Lutheran University decision to begin. That decision, issued on December 16, 2014, announced new standards for (1) exercise of NLRB jurisdiction over religiously-affiliated colleges and universities; and (2) determining the managerial status of faculty members under the Supreme Court’s 1980 decision in Yeshiva … Continue Reading
The National Labor Relations Board issued a 3-2 decision last month in Pacific Lutheran University, 361 NLRB No. 157, in which it significantly modified the standards for determining: (1) whether college or university faculty members are managerial employees and thus not protected by the National Labor Relations Act; and (2) when the Board should decline to exercise … Continue Reading
NLRB Rules That Graduate Students Are Employees
By Paul Salvatore, Edward Brill, Bernard M. Plum and Steven Porzio on Posted in NLRB
Regional Director Issues First Post-Pacific Lutheran Decision
By Edward Brill and Paul Salvatore on Posted in NLRB
Higher Education Alert: NLRB Trend in Easing Unionization Continues with Recent Decision
By Edward Brill and Andrew Rice on Posted in Bargaining units, NLRA, NLRB, Representation Elections
