NLRB Invites Briefs on Whether Graduate Student Assistants Should be Employees Covered by the NLRA | Practical Law
On June 22, 2012, a divided National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released an Order and a Notice and Invitation to File Briefs in the consolidated cases of New York University and Polytechnic Institute of New York University, to aid the NLRB while it reconsiders Brown University. The NLRB invited amicus briefs on the question of whether it should modify or overrule the holding that graduate student assistants are not statutory employees under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) because they have a primarily educational, not economic, relationship with their university.