Santa Fe Pacific Railroad v. Cord

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• explaining that California’s overtime provisions supplemented FLSA’s protections and holding that California’s overtime laws applied to maritime workers working on the high seas
• “Congress intended to prevent overlapping regulation of wage and hour conditions of seamen by different federal agencies.”
• “Congress has specifically allowed states to enforce overtime laws more generous than the FLSA.”
• “The Ninth Circuit further explained that in Aubry, because the plaintiffs were residents of California who did not engage in ‘foreign, intercoastal or coastwise voyages,’ application of the California labor statutes would not interfere with uniform application of federal admiralty law.”
• “[W]e find no indication in the language or 15 legislative history of the FLSA's savings clause that Congress intended that section 218 not 16 allow states to apply more generous overtime pay laws to maritime workers working on 17 the high seas.”

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