In Reply to: NLRB just allowed Dartmouth hoops to unionize posted by SehornBlew on February 05, 2024 at 16:30:41
from the ruling:
1. "the profitability of any given business does not affect the employee status of the individuals who perform work for that business." This is why the ladies will be paid.
2. The key to the employee status is that Dartmouth exercises significant control over the basketball players' work, including travel, practice and play time, and "special permission is required for a player to even get a haircut during a trip."
3. The Dartmouth basketball players perform work in exchange for "compensation," despite the fact that they don't receive athletic scholarships. Instead, they receive many other benefits, including early admissions reads, apparel, meals, lodging, etc. "Employee status will be found where there is a rudimentary economic relationship," and payment/compensation "need not be large or otherwise significant in amount."
Feldman