How Does Flat Rate Pay Work for Auto Technicians?

Oscar Gonzalez is the first name on a lawsuit by technicians at a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Los Angeles. They were paid by the flag hour, between seventeen and thirty-two dollars. The Court of Appeal gave its own example: twenty-six dollars, one hundred fifty flag hours, thirty-nine hundred dollars for eighty hours. On slow days, the repair orders stopped coming. Who pays for those hours?