Technical Bulletins: U.S. Supreme Court Voids FLSA Amendments Affecting Local and State Governments

On June 24, 1976, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case of National League of Cities, et al. v. Usery, Secretary of Labor. The League and a number of cities and states had challenged the validity of the 1974 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act extending the Act's minimum wage and maximum hours provisions to almost all employees of states and their political subdivisions.

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