Punching In: NLRB Lawyers Want More Colleges in Board’s Purview

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

NLRB and Religious Colleges|Take Two for ETA Nominee

Parker Purifoy: Lawyers for the National Labor Relations Board have signaled they plan to push the board to overturn a Trump-era ruling and bring more religious colleges under the agency’s umbrella.

During a December hearing in a separate case that’s attempting to get student athletes classified as employees, attorneys for the NLRB’s general counsel’s office asked an administrative judge to overturn the board’s 2020 Bethany College ruling.

Under that decision, organizations are exempt from the NLRB’s jurisdiction if can show they’re nonprofit, hold themselves publicly ...