A federal court in Louisiana recently certified a case as a collective action. Murillo v. Berry Bros. General Contractors, Inc., No. 6:18-cv-1434 (W.D.La., Sept, 23, 2019). The Murillo case provides a good...
A federal court in Houston recently issued a ruling in an oilfield overtime case. Norman v. QES Wireline, LLC, No. 4:16-cv-02396 (S.D. Tex., Aug. 30, 2019). In Norman, the Magistrate Judge recommended...
A multibillion-dollar company, Simmons Food, Inc. out of Arkansas, and Christian Alcoholics and Addicts in Recovery (“CAAIR”), has been sued by three men who alleged they were forced to work over forty...
A district court in Massachusetts recently conditionally certified an unpaid overtime lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), which was filed by former solids control workers against Clean Harbors, an oil...
A group of oilfield workers won a favorable ruling in an overtime lawsuit in federal court in Texas. The plaintiff, a solids control technician, individually and on behalf of those similarly situated,...
Cisco Logistics, LLC, an oil and gas company, has been sued in federal court in Midland, Texas by a former worker of Cisco. The lawsuit alleges that as a dispatcher and then...
Republic Logistics, LLC and its owner have been sued in federal court in Midland, Texas for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiff was paid...
Oil and gas service provider, TwoPro Energy Services, LLC, has been sued in federal court in the Western District of Texas, Pecos division for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). ...
Earlier this week, the Third Circuit in Stone, et al. v. Troy Construction, LLC, No. 18-1825 (3rd. Cir. March 12, 2019) vacated and remanded a District Court ruling and instead found that...