Reply To: Slavery in NY School?

The work I’m referring to here is childcare which I don’t believe is considered teaching.
In any case doesn’t the NY/NYC minimum wage law supersede the Federal one?
Additionally if employees have to clock in and work specific hours how can the employer call their wages a salary and exempt them from the minimum wage? This is not a project oriented job of “till the job gets done”.
This is not a hypothetical situation even though some may have trouble believing it.
Again I apologize for using the word slavery, I should have written, “Taking Advantage of Employees”.