Legal Opinion
Dong Yi and Edgar Martinez, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Sterling Collision Centers, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 13, 2007No. 06-2645PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that employees be paid one and a half times their hourly wage for every hour that they work in excess of ,40 hours a week. 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1). But there is an exemption for workers in retail stores or other service establishments (including the automobile repair service that is the defendant in this case) who (1) are paid a wage that exceeds one and a half times the minimum wage and (2) receive more than half their compensation in the form of “commissions on goods or services.” § 207(i). In this suit, resolved in favor of the…
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