On Monday, the full National Labor Relations Board unanimously dismissed a petition by college football players at Northwestern who sought permission to unionize. This decision effectively overturned the regional director’s ruling last year that college players on scholarship should be classified as employees based on the control exercised over them by the athletic department of
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Tennessee: Undocumented Worker Has Standing to Bring Retaliatory Discharge Claim
By John P. Rodgers on
Posted in Immigration Law
Tennessee employers take note—undocumented workers who can’t return to work because of their immigration status can still sue you for retaliatory discharge. In a case of first impression, the Tennessee Court of Appeals held on August 5, 2014 that an “unauthorized alien” has standing to bring a retaliatory discharge claim against an employer under Tennessee…