If NCAA Scholarship Football Players Are Employees, What Are Coaches?… Supervisors?

By Gregg E. Clifton, Howard Bloom and Patrick Egan, of Jackson Lewis   The decision of the Regional Director of Region 13 of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) that scholarship football players at Northwestern University are “employees” under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) has created an interesting question for all colleges and universities: Are members of coaching staffs now considered to be supervisors under the NLRA? The answer is likely “yes.” This w