{"id":13781,"date":"2023-03-22T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/?p=13781"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:35:21","slug":"safety-consultants-what-you-should-know-about-overtime-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/safety-consultants-what-you-should-know-about-overtime-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Consultants: What You Should Know About Overtime Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health, Safety, Environmental (\u201cHSE\u201d) workers (which are also known as Safety Consultants, HSE Supervisors or HSE Advisors) in the oil and gas industry are often hired as \u201cindependent contractors\u201d and paid day rates.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But this practice often violates federal and state overtime laws.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hundreds of HSE workers have recovered unpaid wages over the past several years.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A number of oil and gas companies and the consulting companies that hire and pay the HSE workers have been involved in these HSE worker overtime lawsuits, including:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>WSP USA, Inc.;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Quality Project Solutions Inc.;<\/p>\n<p>Cenergy International Services, LLC;<\/p>\n<p>Marathon Oil Corporation;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>RWDY, Inc.;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>NES Global, LLC;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jones Pipeline Services, LLC;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>DXP Enterprises, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Chevron USA, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Petro Safety Services, LLC<\/p>\n<p>Ovintiv USA Inc.;<\/p>\n<p>Newfield Exploration Company;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apache Corporation;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fishbone Safety Solutions, Ltd.;<\/p>\n<p>Granite Services International, Inc.; and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FieldCore Services Solutions, LLC<\/h5>\n<p>The United States Supreme Court recently held that workers paid on a day rate basis are not exempt from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Thus, HSE workers that have been paid day rates may be eligible for overtime pay.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you were paid a day rate within the past three years, you should visit with an experienced overtime attorney as soon as possible to learn of your legal right to unpaid overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Borsellino represents oil and gas workers on unpaid overtime claims.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For a free, confidential, no-obligation consultation, call Josh Borsellino at 817.908.9861 or email him through this link. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health, Safety, Environmental (\u201cHSE\u201d) workers (which are also known as Safety Consultants, HSE Supervisors or HSE Advisors) in the oil and gas industry are often hired as \u201cindependent contractors\u201d and paid day rates.\u00a0 But this practice often violates federal and state overtime laws.\u00a0 Hundreds of HSE workers have recovered unpaid wages over the past several&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3872,3870,1,3871,3868,3869],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781"}],"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=13781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13782,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13781\/revisions\/13782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}