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New Wage/Hour Regulations, Issues and Concerns for Dealerships
Douglas GreenhausChief Regulatory CounselEnvironment, Health, and Safety
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• Assists with NADA’s legislative advocacy efforts.
• Advocates on wide variety of issues before numerous federal agencies.
• Educates members on compliances responsibilities.
• Suggests best practices and importance of other applicable laws.
• Works with ATAEs to address regulatory initiatives at the state and local level.
NADA Regulatory Affairs
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Caution!• State and local law can be different and even stricter
than federal law.
• Please check with ATAEs and your dealership legal counsel for the specifics applicable to your operations and facilities.
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A Dealer Guide to Federal Wage and Hour, Child Labor, and Wage Discrimination Compliance
• How to obtain: www.nada.org/onlinelearning/Customer Service: 800.557.6232.
• NADA/ATD Member: included w/membership
• Non-Members: $129
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New NADA Driven Guide
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Intro To Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)• Enacted in 1938
• Key federal law governing compensation
• Establishes minimum wage mandate
• Requires overtime pay and recordkeeping
• Restricts child labor
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• Hours worked in excess of forty in a workweek.
• Entitlement: premium of ½ of regular rate of pay.
• Cannot average hours across multiple workweeks.
• Key Definitions:– Workweek– Hours Worked– Regular Rate of Pay
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Introduction to Overtime
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Many dealership employees potentially exempt from overtime; some may fall within more than one exemption.
Three Main Buckets:
• Salesman, Partsman, Mechanics
• Section 7(I) Commission Employees
• “White Collar” Employees
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Who’s Exempt From Overtime?
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DOL’s New “White Collar” Rule
• 7/15: DOL proposes revisions revisions to its “White Collar” overtime exemption rules pursuant to a 2014 Presidential directive; NADA files comments in 9/15.
• 5/16: DOL issues final revisions; NADA issues FAQ.• 12/1/2016: rule takes effect.• DOL claims revisions will make 4.2 million workers
newly eligible for overtime.• 9/20/16: NADA joins several other employer trade
associations in challenging the rule in federal court.
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• Adjusts salary thresholds.
• Makes no changes to job duties tests!
• Sets process to automatically increase the new salary thresholds every three years starting in 2020.
See: www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/final2016/
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DOL’s New “White Collar” Rule
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• To qualify for “White Collar” overtime (and minimum wage) exemption, employees must meet:– A salary level threshold test, and– A duties test.
• Paying a salary does not in itself exempt employees from overtime!
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“White Collar” Overtime Exemptions
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For most “White Collar” employees:• Before 12/1/16: $455/week ($23,660/year);
bonuses/incentive pay do not count.• After 12/1/16: $913/week ($47,476/year); up
to 10% may be satisfied by nondiscretionary bonuses, incentive pay or commissions if paid at least quarterly.
• Catchup payments allowed in first pay period following quarter.
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New Salary Threshold Level Tests
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Primary job duty must involve work associated with the relevant sub-exemption.
Executive Employees:
• Manage enterprise or recognized department of enterprise.
• Regularly direct work of two or more employees.
• Have authority to hire/fire.
• e.g., owner, G.M., department head.
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Job Duties Tests
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Administrative Employees:
• Engage in office or non-manual labor directly related to management or general business operations of dealership or its customers.
• Use discretion and independent judgment regarding matters of significance.
• e.g., office managers, controllers, assist. managers.
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Job Duties Tests
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Learned Professionals:
• Perform work requiring advanced knowledge in field of science or learning customarily acquired by prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction.
• Typically applies to in-house attorneys and accountants, but not clerks or bookkeepers.
Computer Professionals: • Detailed criteria; must also receive $27.63/hour.
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Job Duties Tests
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Outside Sales: • Make sales or obtain orders or contracts for services.• Regularly engaged away from employer’s place(s) of
business.• Typically applies to employees who make sales at a
customer's location, rather than by mail, telephone, or the Internet. Parts drivers not covered unless primary duty is sales, not deliveries.
• No minimum salary for outside sales exemption.
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Job Duties Tests
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Highly Compensated Employees (HCEs):• A “safe harbor” exemption that applies to highly-paid
“white collar” employees.• Must earn total annual compensation of $134,000 or
more and $913 per week salary/fee without regard to receipt of nondiscretionary bonuses or incentives, butsuch bonuses and incentives (including commissions) may otherwise count toward $134,000 threshold.
• Regularly perform at least one duty of an executive, administrative or professional employee.
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Job Duties Tests
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Carefully review how and how much “white collar” employees are paid.
Possible pay plan revisions:
• Increase salaries to new thresholds.
• Reduce or eliminate overtime where possible, or divide jobs between two or more employees.
• Increase commission compensation to satisfy commissioned employee exemption.
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Compliance Strategy
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To qualify as a commission employee:
• Dealership must be retail or service establishment, i.e., not derive more than 25% of gross annual sales from wholesale/fleet sales, sales pursuant to formal bids, etc.
• Regular rate must exceed 150% of minimum wage.
• Employee’s compensation for representative period (not less than a month) must primarily derive from commissions on goods or services.
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Commission Employee Exemption
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Salesmen, Partsmen and Mechanics:• Salesmen: primarily engaged in
sale of new or used vehicles and service; but not leasing.
• Partsmen : primarily engaged in requisitioning, stocking, dispensing, or selling parts. Not parts drivers.
• Mechanics: primarily engaged in exempt mechanical work. Includes get-ready, body, but not lube techs or painters.
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No Changes to Other Overtime Exemptions
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• Traditionally exempt as salesmen.
• 2011: DOL re-interprets salesman to exclude services writers.
• 3/15: Ninth Circuit rules that a CA dealership’s service advisors notexempt as salesmen.
• 6/20/16: U.S. Supreme Court rules in Encino Motorcars LLC v. Navarro that 2011 DOL issued 2011 rule improperly; remands case to Ninth Circuit.
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Status of Service Advisors?
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The DOL and the states
• Injunctions, penalties, back wages, damages.
Private actions
• All of the above and attorney’s fees
• Big business, very active plaintiff’s bar.
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Liability and Enforcement
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How best to pay commissions• Settlement vs. pay periods • Minimum wage subsidy recoupment
Recordkeeping• Non-exempt employees• Exempt employees• Records retention and posters
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Other Issues In New NADA Guide
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Child labor restrictions
• 14-15 year-olds
• 16-17 year-olds
• Teen driving
Equal Pay and Compensation Discrimination
• Equal Pay Act
• Title VII, ADEA, PDA
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Other Issues In New NADA Guide
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Questions
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1:00 to 1:30 pm ETWednesday, October 5, 2016
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For more information or to register, go to www.nada.org/onlinelearning Upcoming Webinars
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Next NADA University Online Webinar
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New Wage/Hour Regulations, Issues and Concerns for Dealerships
Douglas GreenhausChief Regulatory CounselEnvironment, Health, and Safety
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