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Defiling The Retaliation Doctrine: Kasten V. Saint-Gobain And The Anti-Retaliation Provision Of The Fair Labor Standards Act, Madeline Engel
Defiling The Retaliation Doctrine: Kasten V. Saint-Gobain And The Anti-Retaliation Provision Of The Fair Labor Standards Act, Madeline Engel
Chicago-Kent Law Review
The anti-retaliation provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act makes it unlawful for an employer to retaliate against an employee who has "filed any complaint" under the FLSA. In Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., the Seventh Circuit declared its position in a growing circuit split as to whether an employee can "file" a verbal complaint of an alleged FLSA violation. Kasten answered the question in the negative, holding that verbal complaints are not protected activity under the Act. This note analyzes relevant Supreme Court precedent and the evolution of the circuit split, as well as principles of statutory …
Save The Children: The Legal Abandonment Of American Youth In The Workplace, Seymour Moskowitz
Save The Children: The Legal Abandonment Of American Youth In The Workplace, Seymour Moskowitz
Law Faculty Publications
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Dickens Redux: How American Child Labor Law Became A Con Game, Seymour Moskowitz
Dickens Redux: How American Child Labor Law Became A Con Game, Seymour Moskowitz
Law Faculty Publications
Millions of American teens are employed today in a variety of workplaces. The jobs they hold typically provide little human capital for their future economic self·sufficiency, and pose substantial immediate and long-term safety, academic, and behavioral risks for this generation. This Article seeks to answer the question of how American law and society reached this situation, which has such disastrous effects for working youth, their families, and society as a whole. Three main themes are developed:
1. Child labor has always been part of the American economy, from colonial times until today. While there have been more than 150 years …