"Student Athletes" are now Employees per NLRB

[Class of '66 Old Fart 84,052]

Full NLRB memorandum at the link below.

Today, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum to all Field offices providing updated guidance regarding her position that certain Players at Academic Institutions (sometimes referred to as student athletes), are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, and, as such, are afforded all statutory protections.

https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/nlrb-general-counsel-jennifer-abruzzo-issues-memo-on-employee-status-of

[Demo 19,665]

17 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Full NLRB memorandum at the link below.

Today, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum to all Field offices providing updated guidance regarding her position that certain Players at Academic Institutions (sometimes referred to as student athletes), are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, and, as such, are afforded all statutory protections.

https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/nlrb-general-counsel-jennifer-abruzzo-issues-memo-on-employee-status-of

Ok, need a lawyer-type to tell us nonlawyer-types if that has any substantive effect. I assumed after the Alston decision that this was already the case.

[Stuhoo 79,788]

12 minutes ago, Demo said:

Ok, need a lawyer-type to tell us nonlawyer-types if that has any substantive effect. I assumed after the Alston decision that this was already the case.

Directly from the source document:

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/olms/regs/compliance/eo_posters/employeerightsposter11x17_2019final.pdf

In essence, it means that student athletes have the same rights of unionization as other NLRA employees.

Click the link to see what those rights entail.

 

 

[Hovadipo 55,183]

56 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Directly from the source document:

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/olms/regs/compliance/eo_posters/employeerightsposter11x17_2019final.pdf

In essence, it means that student athletes have the same rights of unionization as other NLRA employees.

Click the link to see what those rights entail.

 

 

This actually kinda bones athletes with regards to taxes right? Shouldn’t schollies, room and board, cost of attendance be taxed now?

 

Also, more importantly, does this effect EA Sports College Football or no? 

[Stuhoo 79,788]

17 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

This actually kinda bones athletes with regards to taxes right? Shouldn’t schollies, room and board, cost of attendance be taxed now?

 

Also, more importantly, does this effect EA Sports College Football or no? 

I’m not sure where the tax code details this, but merit scholarships have never been required to be declared as taxable income. 

NIL money will absolutely be taxable.

[Hoosierfan2017 20,931]

If anyone wants to read a long, boring article from 2015 dealing with Northwestern’s attempts to unionize: http://www.taxhistory.org/www/features.nsf/Articles/0473CF3877C2DB9C85257E1B004D63C5?OpenDocument

Scroll to heading III for the tax code stuff. “Section 117(a) excludes from gross income "any amount received as a qualified scholarship by an individual who is a candidate for a degree." The provision applies to a scholarship, whether awarded by a university or an independent entity, as long as it meets specified statutory criteria.”

The tax code changes though and this was from 2015 so who knows if that part has changed.