{"id":544,"date":"2020-07-01T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=544"},"modified":"2022-06-05T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T21:49:02","slug":"usdol-wage-and-hour-opinion-letter-regarding-car-dealership-employees-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/usdol-wage-and-hour-opinion-letter-regarding-car-dealership-employees-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"USDOL Wage and Hour Opinion Letter Regarding Car Dealership Employees\u2019 Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On June 25, the U.S. Department of Labor issued five new opinion letters addressing compliance issues related to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/sites\/dolgov\/files\/WHD\/opinion-letters\/FLSA\/2020_06_25_07_FLSA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FLSA2020-7<\/a>, which says that an automobile manufacturer\u2019s incentive payments paid directly to an automobile dealership\u2019s employee, compensating the employee for work done on behalf of the dealership, may count toward the dealership\u2019s minimum wage obligation to the employee. For details, see the opinion letter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/sites\/dolgov\/files\/WHD\/opinion-letters\/FLSA\/2020_06_25_07_FLSA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FLSA2020-7<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on the other newly issued opinion letters, see the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/whd\/whd20200625-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USDOL press release<\/a>. USDOL opinion letters provide employers with official written opinions of how a particular law applies to a specific set of facts presented by the requesting entity. Consult your attorney regarding the application of Hawaii state law to similar situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 25, the U.S. Department of Labor issued five new opinion letters addressing compliance issues related to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), including&nbsp;FLSA2020-7, which says that an automobile manufacturer\u2019s incentive payments paid directly to an automobile dealership\u2019s employee, compensating the employee for work done on behalf of the dealership, may count toward the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}