As promised, I'll write today of some of SCOTUS' wrestling this term with issues of statutory construction. In the realm of Labor Law, this was the term of Encino Motorcars v. Navarro , a case that turns on the meaning of an exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act. This is important, even though the specific category of worker involved may not include very many people, because the New Deal era legislation continues to provide a classification system in a dynamic world of work. The relevant requirement of the FLSA is that which requires overtime pay for workers who don't fall within exemptions., and that exempts "any salesman, partsman, or mechanic primarily engaged in selling or servicing automobiles trucks, or farm implements...." if employed by a dealership primarily engaged in selling said autos or implements. The specific problem is that auto dealers including the petitioner Encino nowadays employ so-called "service advisors." As the ...