Supreme Court Rules Car Service Advisers Can’t Get Overtime (1)

Car service advisers aren’t entitled to federal overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4.

An employee generally is eligible for time-and-a-half pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act unless an exemption applies. Encino Motorcars LLC and current and former service advisers for the dealership disputed whether the FLSA’s exemption for “any salesman, partsman, or mechanic primarily engaged in selling or servicing automobiles, trucks, or farm implements” applies to the employees. Service advisers sell service packages provided by technicians.

The April 2 decision means the service advisers at the Mercedes-Benz ...