Council 13 v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Lockhart v. Fretwell · National League of Cities v. Usery · Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
Most-quoted passages
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“the Administration has concluded that without the enactment of an Operating Budget, (1) employees covered by the FLSA whose duties are not necessary to insure the health, safety and welfare of the citizens, cannot be permitted to perform their duties since the Commonwealth has no authority to make payments to those employees; (2) employees whose duties are necessary to insure the health, safety and welfare of the citizens must continue to perform their duties and, notwithstanding the Constitutional prohibition against payments, those employees who are covered by the FLSA must be paid in a timely manner; (3) employees not covered by the FLSA may continue to perform their duties and may be paid in arrears when an Operating Budget is enacted; and (4) employees paid from sources other than an Operating Budget may continue to perform their duties and may be paid in a timely manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen state employees are required to work at the performance of their job duties, the [FLSA] mandates that the Commonwealth ... shall pay to such employees ... their regular salaries and wages from monies actually in the treasury, even though the pertinent fiscal year appropriation line item has been exhausted, because the federal [FLSA], 29 U.S.C. § 206 governs, prevailing by virtue of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution over PA. CONST. art. III, § 24 that requires Pennsylvania legislative appropriation authorization for payments by the Commonwealth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Article III, Section 24 of the Pennsylvania Constitution is not preempted by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219 ; therefore, when state employees are required to work at the performance of their job duties after the pertinent fiscal year appropriation line item for their salaries and wages has been exhausted, the Governor is not required to pay, and is in fact prohibited from paying, those employees their regular salaries and wages from monies actually in the treasury but not yet appropriated by the General Assembly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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