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1991

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Technical Bulletins: The 1990 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefits Survey: A Look At Compensation Of Tennessee Municipal Employees, Richard Stokes May 1991

Technical Bulletins: The 1990 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefits Survey: A Look At Compensation Of Tennessee Municipal Employees, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The salaries of workers in Tennessee's cities and towns are keeping pace with inflation. That's just one of the findings of the comprehensive salary and fringe benefit survey conducted annually by The University of Tennessee's Municipal Technical Advisory Service. This summary of the 1990 findings is designed to help towns, cities, and others evaluate and compare the data and prepare budgets based on the most up-to-date information.


Technical Bulletins: Do Your Executives Pass The Flsa's Salary (And Duties) Test?, Sid Hemsley, Richard M. Ellis May 1991

Technical Bulletins: Do Your Executives Pass The Flsa's Salary (And Duties) Test?, Sid Hemsley, Richard M. Ellis

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Certain battalion chiefs in the Kern County, California fire department are not executives under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). That's what the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in Abshire v. County of Kern, 908 F.2d 483 (1990). In March, the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review that decision, in effect upholding it. Some newspapers called that case an expensive disaster for municipalities. The real question is whether the executives in a city's municipal departments are executives as defined by FLSA.