Roblox Accused of Illegal Child Labor in Game-Building Model (2)

Online gaming platform provider Roblox Corp. exploits minors to provide game development work for little or no pay, violating ...
Reason

The Fair Labor Standards Act Imposed A Ban On Child Labor That Was "Identical" To the Child Labor Provision Declared Unconstitutional In Hammer v. Dagenhart

This week, I taught cases on enumerated powers from the Progressive Era and during the New Deal. In Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918), the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a federal law that banned ...

Case: Wage & Hour/Fair Labor Standards Act (E.D. Mich.)

A Michigan federal district court granted summary judgment to Heart to Heart Hospice of Detroit, LLC on a licensed practical nurse’s FLSA overtime claim for on-call waiting time, finding that the time ...
Newsweek

Republican Wants to Loosen Child Labor Laws

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A GOP-led bill introduced in the House of Representatives last week ...
JD Supra

What Employers Should Know About New DOL Interpretations of FMLA and Fair Labor Standards Act

On September 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division released four new opinion letters interpreting the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act ...
USA Today

On Labor Day, think of the children working graveyard shifts right under our noses

It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, on Labor Day, we devote our attention to a subset of the American population who should not be working, or at least not working in jobs that are entirely ...
Reuters

US Labor and Employment Law: Key Historic Legislation

Labor disputes in the US date back to before the Revolutionary War. The first recorded strike over working conditions took place in 1636 on Richmond Island, Maine, when fishermen protested that their ...