Yesterday’s Supreme Court wage-and-hour decision in Haiku. Great Haiku!

April 3, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Service Advisors
at an auto dealership
don’t get overtime

They are salespeople,
primarily engaged in
servicing autos.

A dictionary
textual analysis
It is all you need

It’s wrong to construe
FLSA exemptions
narrowly. Really.

That premise is flawed.
The Ninth Circuit can pound sand,
says the Supreme Court.

For more on yesterday’s Supreme Court opinion, check out the overage over at

And now, I’m going to watch the second half of the NCAA National Championship.

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