How can a city council pass a labor law? That is the state’s jurisdiction, isn’t it? Otherwize we’d have different labor laws city to city, never mind state to state.
That’s a quaint notion: that different levels of government are responsible for the regulation of different matters. This radical concept went out the window with the New Deal and the de facto repeal of the tenth amendment. Nowhere is this more evident than in the area of wage-hour and other employment standards laws relating to sick leave, vacation, holidays, break periods, maximum working hours, and other such matters. Employers today often face employment standards laws and regulations from the feds, the states, and frequently counties and cities pertaining to minimum wage and overtime, family and medical leave, paid and unpaid leave, and other such matters. These requirements often have different coverage and substantive provisions, and employees who may be exempt under the federal law may not be exempt under state or municipal law.
The reason for this development, of course, is that lawmakers at all levels of government, federal, state, county, and municipal, all delight in giving away OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. Why should the feds have all the fun.
The revolution draws nearer, day by day.