My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: South Carolina
My university requires graduate students to be enrolled in coursework before it will pay them to teach a summer course. The graduate school does not actually care whether it is a real course, whether the student wants or needs a summer course, or whether the academic department's program of study involves summer course work. They are fully aware that they are forcing graduate assistants to enroll in and pay for a dummy graduate course just so that they can be paid to teach undergraduate summer courses. Is this legal?

