Supreme Court Rules Car Service Advisers Can’t Get Overtime

• Employees generally eligible for overtime unless exemption applies • Car service advisers qualify for exemption for employees ‘primarily engaged’ in selling or servicing cars • Supreme Court rejects long-standing principle of interpreting exemptions in employees’ favor

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, ...