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NLRB: grad-students at private universities can be employees

Posted 3/19/21

Graduate students at private universities who grade papers, teach classes and perform similar tasks are workers.

So the National Labor Relations Board essentially decided when it withdrew a proposed Trump-era rule March 15 that would have classified private-university students who are paid for education-related work as non-employees under Federal law and therefore are not subject to NLRB oversight, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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