Taxing Matters
Overtaxed Member
They are employees. But they have individual contracts (not at-will).
Doesn't matter that they have contracts for some set period of time and thus are not at will. The federal minimum wage laws still apply just the same.
They are bona fide employees earning an annual salary of $1 per year as agreed upon in their signed contracts.
And unless they are teachers actually teaching for the work they do the school district still must pay them that minimum pay that the law requires. Just because some school districts do this does not make it legal. If you think that just an employer does something it must mean it's legal then you don't know the world of employment very well. There are lots of instances of employers screwing up on labor law.