My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Mississippi

My husband is paid weekly. He is an automotive technician at a long established auto dealership.

He is paid by the work he does normally. It's not a set wage or an hourly wage. He's paid by "book hours." However, he is required to be there at the dealership from 7:30 am until 5:30 pm Monday-Friday with a one hour lunch.

Last week, things were extremely slow at the dealership. My husband only made 14 book hours. The timesheet at work had him there more than 40 hours.

The paycheck he got was about $70 short of minimum wage for a 40 hour work week, which we thought he was owed at the minimum.

I did some reading, and I really thought he was owed at least that. He talked to them, and they seemed to agree and mentioned they would compensate him for it.

Now today, when he was expecting to get a check, they said they weren't going to give it to him. They were going to wait until his next paycheck (this week) and use those hours to adjust his next paycheck...say, if he made enough hours to be over minimum wage this week, they'd be applying that overage to last week's shortfall.

Again, they are normally paid weekly, so I thought he would have already been owed the minimum wage last week?

Is this all kosher? We'll let it go if it is. I'm by no means well versed in labor law.

Thank you for your assistance.