{"id":13727,"date":"2022-05-10T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/?p=13727"},"modified":"2022-05-10T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:29:39","slug":"court-finds-wireline-engineers-not-subject-to-white-collar-exemptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/court-finds-wireline-engineers-not-subject-to-white-collar-exemptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Court finds wireline engineers not subject to white collar exemptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Colorado recently ruled that a group of wireline engineers are not subject to any white collar exemptions under the FLSA.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A salaried wireline engineer filed suit against MBI Energy Services, Inc. in federal court in Colorado in 2018.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The plaintiff alleged that he and other wireline engineers were denied overtime pay in violation of the FLSA.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In September of 2020, the court certified the case as a collective action, and other class members opted into the case.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The plaintiffs then moved for partial summary judgment on a number of defendant\u2019s affirmative defenses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff on the executive, administrative and highly compensated exemptions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The court denied the plaintiffs\u2019 motion on the issues of the Motor Carrier Act exemption and good faith. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This case is a good reminder that most oilfield workers are not exempt from overtime pay under the FLSA.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you have worked in the oil and gas industry within the past three years and have been paid a day rate, a salary or otherwise have been denied overtime pay, <b>KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Speak with an experienced overtime attorney as soon as possible to learn of your possible rights to overtime pay. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>About the author: Josh Borsellino is a Texas attorney that represents oilfield workers on claims for unpaid overtime.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Josh has filed dozens of overtime lawsuits across Texas and in New Mexico and other states for unpaid overtime.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you have questions about overtime pay, give Josh a call at 817.908.9861 or email him through this <a href=\"mailto:josh@dfwcounsel.com\">link<\/a> today for a free, no-obligation, confidential consultation. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Colorado recently ruled that a group of wireline engineers are not subject to any white collar exemptions under the FLSA.\u00a0 A salaried wireline engineer filed suit against MBI Energy Services, Inc. in federal court in Colorado in 2018.\u00a0 The plaintiff alleged that he and other wireline engineers were denied overtime pay&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3872,3871,3868,3869],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13728,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13727\/revisions\/13728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}