Hacker News with Generative AI: Labor Laws

Florida to consider relaxing child labour laws to fill vacant jobs (euronews.com)
Florida’s state’s legislature is debating a bill on Tuesday that would relax child labour rules and allow minors as young as 14 years old to work overnight on school days.
Overtime Pay for 9 Extra Months in Space? Nope (nytimes.com)
If your eight-day work trip was unexpectedly extended by nine months, you might expect to rack up some overtime pay.
Scale AI is being investigated by the US Department of Labor (techcrunch.com)
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is investigating the data-labeling startup Scale AI for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, TechCrunch has learned.
California Lawmaker Introduces the "No Robo Bosses Act" (contracosta.news)
State Senator Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, on Thursday introduced the “No Robo Bosses Act” — groundbreaking legislation that would require human oversight of artificial intelligence systems in the workplace to help prevent abuses.
Amazon says workers must be in the office. The UK government disagrees (bbc.co.uk)
Amazon is ordering its staff back to the office five days a week, just as the government is pushing for rights to flexible working - including working from home - to be strengthened.
Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026 (fikku.com)
A 30-hour workweek in America? It nearly became law (washingtonpost.com)
Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek (apnews.com)
Karnataka (The State Housing Bangalore) Proposes 14 Hour Workdays for SWEs (thehindu.com)
Greece introduces the six day work week (dw.com)
Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California (washingtonpost.com)