Scholarship Players for College Football Team are Employees under the NLRA: NLRB Region 13 | Practical Law
In Northwestern University, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Regional Director for Region 13 issued a decision finding that college football players receiving grant-in-aid scholarships from Northwestern University are employees under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRB directed that an immediate secret ballot election be held among the eligible players in the unit to determine whether they should be represented by the College Athletes Players Association (CAPA) for purposes of collective bargaining with Northwestern University.