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Honest 'Car Guys' need love , too, along with minimum wage and legal representation
Posted by: William Amlong
February 23, 2009

There are honest car guys/gals. The Amlong Firm represents a number of them.

Honest car salespersons - the brunt of jokes about trust, based on the behavior of their less savory colleagues, the target of plaid-suit caricatures stemming from the same stereotype - need love too. And legal protection.

Crooked car dealers, infamous for gypping their customers out of what adds up to literally billions across the nation in fraudulent overcharges, do not hesitate to cheat their sales and back-office (finance and insurance, or "F&I") employees, too, and to fire anyone who resists defrauding customers or financial institutions.

One of the The Amlong Firm's clients was mentioned in a front page story in The Miami Herald Sunday, January 25 concerning how dealerships permit sales persons and F&I managers to lie to lenders...

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Overtime Cheating -- it just got more expensive if you get caught
Posted by: William Amlong
February 20, 2008

     Calling your secretary an "administrative" employee to cheat her out of overtime just got a lot riskier because of an opinion handed down Jan. 28 by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which oversees federal trial courts in Florida, Georgia and Alabama.

     Overtime law is simple. Generally, under the Fair Labor Standards Act, if someone works more than 40 hours a week, that person must be paid time-and-a-half for every hour over 40. Bona fide executive and administrative employees are exempt. And the fantasy of so many employers is that they can make non-exempt employees exempt just by labeling them

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