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Troy, Leo – Government Union Review, 1986
In "Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority" (1985), the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Tenth Amendment does not preclude application of the federal minimum wage act and the Fair Labor Standards Act to state and local government employees. This paper explains "Garcia" history and implications for…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Employer Employee Relationship, Government Employees, Labor Legislation
Block, Richard N.; Roberts, Karen; Clarke, R. Oliver – 2003
This volume attempts to measure and quantify 10 labor standards in the United States and Canada. Its two purposes are to begin to fill the gap in the research by developing a measure of labor standards that can be applied across countries and to apply that measure to the United States (U.S.) and Canada to test a popular hypothesis that Canada has…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Collective Bargaining, Developed Nations, Economic Factors
