The Nation - News from Oct. 25, 1985

The Senate, facing a Nov. 1 deadline, approved by voice vote a compromise that would partially alter a Supreme Court decision requiring cash for overtime worked by state and local employees. The House is expected to pass it next week. The Supreme Court ruled in February of this year in the case of Garcia vs. San Antonio (Tex.) Metropolitan Transit Authority that state and local employees must be paid cash for overtime instead of compensatory time off. The compromise provides that states and local jurisdictions can give time off instead of cash but at 1 1/2 times the regular rate for no more than 480 hours of compensatory time. Any overtime above 480 would have to be paid in cash.