NLRB General Counsel Issues Memo Addressing Employee Status At Universities

Mealey's (February 9, 2017, 9:26 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard F. Griffin Jr. issued a memorandum on Jan. 31 regarding employee status in university settings and in that memo stated “that application of the statutory definition of employee and the common-law test lead to the conclusion that Division I FBS scholarship football players are employees under the NLRA [National Labor Relations Act].”...