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College athletes whose efforts primarily benefit their schools may qualify as employees deserving of pay under federal wage-and-hour laws, a U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday in a setback to the NCAA.
As 2022 begins, college athletes’ quest to gain recognition as employees is headed to a federal appeals court. On Dec. 22, Pennsylvania district judge John Padova elevated, for appellate review ...
The narrowly focused, four-page bill voted on Thursday would exempt college athletes from being deemed employees. It must still pass in Congress, though, to be enacted.
Every student-athlete is not going to become a professional athlete, but they are guaranteed a college education and degree to help them graduate with little or no debt via their scholarships. [80] If universities start paying student-athletes, the universities would not be focused on what the student-athletes are attending for, which is the ...
Due to the increasing popularity of college sports because of television and media coverage, some players on college sports teams are receiving compensation from sources other than the NCAA. [31] For instance, CBS paid around $800 million for broadcasting rights to a three-week 2014 men's basketball tournament. [ 31 ]
The NCAA, the nonprofit organization that regulates collegiate sports in the United States, has warned that if student-athletes nationwide were classified as employees, it would ruin the entire ...
O'Bannon v. NCAA, 802 F.3d 1049 (9th Cir. 2015), was an antitrust class action lawsuit filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The lawsuit, which former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon filed on behalf of the NCAA's Division I football and men's basketball players, challenged the organization's use of the images and the likenesses of its former student athletes for ...
The NCAA has been consistent in fighting losing battles. Failing to declare college athletes as employees is just the latest one. C.L. Brown explains.