This chapter deals with the question of whether labour standards are less relevant or more relevant for the new world of work which is vastly different from the old world of work when most labour standards were first established. The various rationales for labour standards are first outlined....

In this paper, I study one of the largest changes in the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in the last two decades ? the extension of coverage eligibility for state and local government workers. The Supreme Court's 1985 decision in San Antonio Metropolitan vs. Garcia...