Car dealership porters – are you paid overtime? Find out if your employer owes you wages.
Are you a porter at a car dealership working overtime? Are you paid time-and-a-half when you work more than 40 hours a week? If the answer to that last question is no, keep reading to find out why your employer may have misclassified you under the wage and hour laws. Porters at Car Dealerships – Do you know your exemption status? If you are a porter, your job duties may include:
transporting customers to home or work in dealership-owned car,
moving cars around the lot or showroom,
servicing and maintaining cleanliness of cars on lot,
duties in the sales or service area.
Our employment lawyers can review your job duties to determine whether you should be paid overtime. Often, we find that employers have misclassified employees as exempt employees, or as independent contractors, and do not pay them time-and-a-half. This is illegal for non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. What the wage and hour law says about car dealership employees The FLSA exempts certain car dealership employees from overtime pay, when certain conditions are met. However, if you are not a salesman, partsman, or mechanic, you may very likely be an hourly non-exempt employee, which means you may be eligible to receive overtime pay under the FLSA.
What you should do if you are owed overtime: You should order our free book, The 10 Biggest Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Wage and Overtime Claim, to learn everything your employer doesn’t want you to know. Call our employment lawyers to start your free case review today. Our firm has represented clients in wage and overtime claims against car dealerships nationwide. You can call our office toll-free: 1-888-449-2068, or send us a confidential contact form. FAQ:Will I be fired if I speak up?
The Texas overtime lawyers at Kennedy Hodges represent workers nationwide and across Texas in: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Pasadena, Laredo, Sugar Land, Lubbock, Illinios, New York, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Jose, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Columbus, Charlotte, Detroit, and more.
