The Department of Labor (“DOL”) has collected a record-breaking $322 million in back wages in 2019 for workers alleging unpaid overtime and minimum wage violations. The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division uncovered…
Creek Pipe Company, LLC and its president and owner have been sued in the Western District of Texas for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the New Mexico Minimum…
Southern Connections and Services, Inc., an oilfield services company, has had two separate unpaid overtime lawsuits filed against it within the past two months, each filed in federal court in Midland. The…
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), employers are required to pay their employees at a rate of time and a half the regular rate of pay for all hours worked over…
The Permian Basin, encompassing 55 million acres in West Texas and New Mexico, has started to see the job market slow down over the past 6-12 months. Historically, the oil and gas…
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…