A new government entity is entering the growing movement to have athletes deemed as employees, RossDellenger writes
governing compensation and transfer policies. It follows the NCPA’s move in February to file unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the NCAA office, the Pac-12 Conference and California schools USC and UCLA. The goal isfor D-I basketball players and FBS football players. An NLRB hearing is expected as soon as this fall.
The letter notes that the EEOC enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers of 15 or more persons from discriminating against its employees and applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, origin, gender identity, sex or religion. Many within college sports believe employment status is coming at some point for college athletes. The EEOC represents one of four possible routes for that to happen. The NLRB is another possibility. The Board’s general counsel, appointed by Biden, has expressed. In Pennsylvania, a court case, Johnson vs. NCAA, is working its way through the system that would make athletes employees. The fourth route to athlete employment status is Congress.
It is a complex issue. Like a freight train, says one athletic director, it is bearing down on college sports, grouped with other changes that are quickly altering the industry’s landscape—some say for the better, others say for the worse.
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