I could be wrong, but doesn’t the NFL benefit from some type of antitrust exemption? Seems they would almost have to with how they do their media rights and such.
The NFL wants to protect the college players.....but also wont allow them to be drafted into their league until they're a certain age or out of high school for a certain number of years.I could be wrong, but doesn’t the NFL benefit from some type of antitrust exemption? Seems they would almost have to with how they do their media rights and such.
That’s not about protecting players it’s about protecting team interestsThe NFL wants to protect the college players.....but also wont allow them to be drafted into their league until they're a certain age or out of high school for a certain number of years.
"We want the schools to pay us a yearly salary.....but we're not employees".Student-Athlete Advisory Committee reiterates their desire to not become employees and are in support of the SCORE bill:
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"We want guardrails so our teams can regain an advantage by operating outside them."I hope Sankey has given his own schools that guidance about operating within Guard rails, but we all know he didn’t, and the $EC won’t.
I think it depends on the purpose of the collective. If it is to take booster money and funnel it to athletes as play-for-play, that’s not a valid business purpose and House intended to eliminate that. However i thought WeWill was being changed to help athletes find legitimate NIL and to educate businesses in the value of NIL. That would seem to be a more legitimate business purpose.Why does it matter? We Will is a 501c, legally no different than any other non profit organization. That's ripe for a lawsuit.
Plenty of pros and cons for athletes having employee status vs being independent contractors as outlined in this article. This also clarifies the intent of the supposed POTUS Executive Order:"We want the schools to pay us a yearly salary.....but we're not employees".
No, you're pro athletes now.
Plenty of pros and cons for athletes having employee status vs being independent contractors as outlined in this article. This also clarifies the intent of the supposed POTUS Executive Order:
And d2 and d3 completelyIf they become employees that’s the true death knell for most non revenue sports
"We want the schools to pay us a yearly salary.....but we're not employees".
No, you're pro athletes now.
Yeah, I think threading the needle in this manner may end up best serving all impacted parties, even lawyers who are hell bent on making college athletes employees even though the vast majority of athletes don't want to be employees.It can be done, is in fact done in many industries, most famously the film industry. They don't have to be employees to unionize and collectively bargain.
I'm confused as to who isn't employees. My understanding is that they (hands, actors, filmographers, directors, craft, writers, etc.) work irregularly and may jump from employer to employer and from project to project but when they are working on a project they are employees. Who specifically are you talking about who aren't employees? Producers?It can be done, is in fact done in many industries, most famously the film industry. They don't have to be employees to unionize and collectively bargain.
I'm confused as to who isn't employees. My understanding is that they (hands, actors, filmographers, directors, craft, writers, etc.) work irregularly and may jump from employer to employer and from project to project but when they are working on a project they are employees. Who specifically are you talking about who aren't employees? Producers?
I have worked extensively with IATSE for years and I can tell you that even when we call people from the bench while they work for us they are most definitely employees.