The Fair Labor Standards Act: Extending the Act to State and Local Government Employees

HRD-88-86 Published: Jun 29, 1988. Publicly Released: Jul 26, 1988.

Highlights

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division's (WHD) implementation of a Supreme Court decision which, along with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Amendments of 1985, extended FLSA to additional state and local government employees.

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