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Singer Angelo Kelly has been fined for bringing his son on stage to sing under child labour laws. Hassfurt administrative court in Bavaria slapped a €3,000 (£2,600)[USD$3,640] on folk singer Angelo Kelly after his four-year-old son performed on stage with him at a summer concert in 2019. The German dpa news agency reported that the court deemed it to go against Germany's Youth Labour Protection Act as as it wasn't officially approved by authorities as per the regulations and Angelo's kid, William, was on stage until 8.20pm, when the Act states children can be in musical performances if it's between...

This is further proof of what I have explained for years. Accommodation to Muslim demands gives way to more demands, more submission. One prime example of this is what happened to Hertz. Hertz was exceedingly generous to their Muslim workers. And the Muslim response was an endless war of litigation and attrition. Hertz provided prayer rooms, rugs and prayer break times. Not good enough. Back in 2011, I reported that Hertz had was forced to suspend 35 Muslim workers because they were abusing their extra special “prayer break times” and refusing to clock out when praying. There was no way...

When John Sexton wrote about 11 year old Frank Giaccio getting to mow the White House lawn, he seemed to be taking a tongue-in-cheek tone when he wondered if anyone would invoke child labor laws to criticize the President. I mean, seriously now… who could be that insane? I half-expected Salon or maybe Slate to run this story under the headline, “Trump violates child labor laws at the White House.” So far it seems only a handful of nuts on Twitter are bringing up child labor laws, so maybe this means President Trump is slowly becoming “nomalized.” Not so...

The Great NFL Sideline Rebellion of 2014 strikes again.. A former professional cheerleader for the New York Jets filed a wage-theft lawsuit against the team Tuesday, making the Jets the fourth NFL team this year to be sued by cheerleaders for allegedly violating state labor laws.

The sun is rising in India for America’s outsourced jobs. But it’s a bad sign for New York’s dwindling middle-class workforce, say labor analysts. New York’s labor markets are in convulsions as American employers ship more well-paid jobs to lower-cost countries like Mexico, the Philippines, China and India — where IBM, culling 747 jobs from the Empire State, has achieved landmark status. It now employs more workers in India than in the US, according to a leaked IBM document reviewed by The Post. The average IBM pay in India is $17,000, compared with $100,000 for a senior IT specialist in...

Old MacDonald had a farm. Until the Marxists stepped in, that is. With the American dream of the Constitutional Republic fast fading from view, the family farm is next on the Obama regime’s ever expanding hit list. ...The agenda to wipe out the family farm is being set by a deadly duo, George Soros, who is buying up farmland like some folks buy Black Friday goodies, and the Communist-cheered Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. We the People can count on food being the new frontier for takeover by control seeking Marxists frontier for takeover by control seeking Marxists installed...

LANSING, Mich. — Sparking outrage across the country’s rural heartland, the Obama administration is proposing rules to curb the ability of children on farms to engage in “corn sex” for pay. Farmers call it corn detasseling, a time-honored but physically demanding chore designed to promote cross-pollination in the field. For decades it has been a way for teens to earn extra spending money — and forge some good-natured field hand camaraderie — for a few weeks each summer. The Obama administration is considering revisions to federal agricultural work rules that effectively would bar teens younger than 16 from engaging in...

Labor Department officials ruled Monday that Prince George’s County schools shortchanged more than 1,000 teachers recruited from foreign countries and ordered the district to pay $5.9 million in back wages and penalties. School officials recruited the foreign instructors for classes such as math and science that were hard to fill but then required that the teachers cover thousands of dollars in expenses related to getting temporary work visas — expenses that, Labor Department officials said, should have been covered by the system. That violated laws requiring that U.S. and foreign teachers be compensated equally. ..Prince George’s began recruiting foreign teachers...

Imagine working at a company that treats every employee exactly the same, irrespective of their individual effort. No matter how hard you work or how much your co-workers slack off, you get exactly the same pay. For millions of people, America's outdated labor laws and one-size-fits-all collective-bargaining agreements make this a reality. Maybe this is why studies show union members are less satisfied with their jobs than are nonunion workers and many Americans simply refuse to work in union shops. Indeed, just 9 percent of nonunion workers tell pollsters they would like to join a union, and private-sector union membership...

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter's executive order granting conditional collective bargaining rights to state employees has produced at least one unintended major benefit: It has belatedly focused public attention on a confusing set of laws and court decisions that govern the rights of public employees to organize and bargain collectively. Ritter's order, of course, does nothing to improve the landscape — and if allowed to stand, will further muddle the issue. Thanks to a narrow 1992 Colorado Supreme Court decision, it is already quite tangled. The court in that year held that government employees had a qualified right to strike, a...

NY Amish Facing Child Labor Law Pressure Ed Thomas AgapePress Pro-Family Advocates Feel Constitution Favors Religious Families' Rights The executive director of a New York-based constitutional rights advocacy group says he will be talking with the senator who chairs the state's Labor Committee today during a special session of the State Legislature. At issue is the attempt to resolve a growing problem for some western New York Amish families whom state labor officials say are violating labor laws. Amish families in Lyndonville have been told the businesses they run in which their minor children, ages 14 to 17, work --...

I do not imagine that there are too many labor lawyers posting here on FR however does anyone have an info citing that is it against the law for an employer to "require" you to speak Spanish? Thanks, guys:)

Indian tribes want Congress to exempt them and their casinos from federal labor laws. At a House hearing Thursday, tribes spoke out for legislation to overturn an order by the National Labor Relations Board that said - for the first time - that sovereign Indian tribes are under the board's jurisdiction. "A tribe is a government," said Joe Garcia, president of the National Congress of American Indians. "Tribal policies must come from within the tribe's government, rather than being imposed from the outside." The labor board's order, which came in response to an organizing dispute at the San Manuel Indian...

SHAMOKIN - More than a dozen suspected illegal immigrants were discovered Wednesday but not detained at a strip mall construction site, authorities said. None of the 18 Spanish-speaking laborers could be detained because the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency did not have agents available to go to the scene, and other law enforcement agencies did not have jurisdiction, District Attorney Anthony J. Rosini said. The raid was conducted after Rep. Robert E. Belfanti Jr., D-Mount Carmel, received a tip of possible child labor law violations at the site in Coal Twp., Rosini said. About two dozen workers laying blocks...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 29, 2005 Governor Blagojevich announces new labor laws that ensure fair wages and better conditions for thousands of workers Strengthened laws effective Jan 1 will protect over 300,000 day laborers.. CHICAGO – Thousands of workers across Illinois will be better protected against abuses by unlawful day labor agencies, will enjoy improved working conditions and will be protected in their rights to fair wages, thanks to two new labor laws signed by Governor Rod R. Blagojevich last summer and that go into effect January 1, 2006. The strengthened Day and Temporary Labor Services Act will make Illinois...

LAS CHEPAS, MEXICO – Mario Pérez, muscular and 16 years old, is a budding carpenter. Next to him is Samuel Sánchez, 32, an experienced roofer. Fed up with earning $4 a day in Mexico, they recently arrived at this tiny town on the Mexican-New Mexican border to start the two-day walk to the US. They talked about where they would go. "Probably Texas," said Mr. Sánchez. "What about New Orleans?" suggested Mr. Pérez In the wake of hurricane Katrina, recent moves by the US government may help would-be migrants like Sánchez and Pérez decide where to go. And decisions in...