Unpaid Overtime
Employers sometimes attempt to avoid paying overtime to their workers by adopting a “comp time” plan. Under such a system, the employer books extra hours as comp time instead of providing overtime…
1. Case Description On February 4, 2014, a former employee of Pfaff Ranch Services, LLC d/b/a P & P Oilfield Services filed suit against the company seeking unpaid overtime. The lawsuit, which…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of an unpaid overtime lawsuit that could affect millions of workers across the country that go through security screenings and perform other…
Federal regulators will revise the rules on overtime pay in a move that will make millions of additional workers eligible for additional pay when they work more than forty hours per week. …
Talk to a Lawyer that Knows Texas Overtime Laws! With the oil and gas sector booming, workers in Midland-Odessa and across West Texas are being asked to work more now than ever. …
I am often asked the question by clients, “Am I an employee or an independent contractor?” All too often, the answer to this question is that my client has been misclassified as…
You may be wondering how to get back overtime pay. To recover overtime pay that a current or former employer owes you, you generally have two choices. You can file a complaint…
Short-haul truckers working for oilfield service or construction companies who are paid by the load, with no extra compensation for hours worked above 40 in a week, may have a claim for…
Many cable and internet installation companies are intentionally violating the overtime laws and costing their workers thousands of dollars in unpaid overtime. These companies generally violate the Fair Labor Standards Act in…
Overtime violations are on the rise in the oil patch. The Department of Labor has announced that it has launched an “enforcement initiative” on Marcellus Shale contractors that will last for several…
It is a rare case when the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (one of the more conservative in the country) rules that a plaintiff was not awarded enough…
Across Texas (in West Texas in the Permian Basin and in South Texas in the Eagle Ford Shale, particularly) and in many other parts of the country, oil and gas production is…
Cellular providers are racing to build advanced cellphone networks, according to the Wall Street Journal. The subcontractors who build, upgrade and maintain these cell phone towers are working their employees around the clock…
Texas lawmakers are attempting to get tough on construction companies that commit payroll fraud by misclassifying construction workers, passing a new law recently signed by Gov. Rick Perry. As I have previously…
A new report shows that oil and gas wells continue to increase in Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale. According to a new quarterly report of oil and gas wells from a…
On July 9, 2012, the Second Circuit held that a CEO of a supermarket chain could be personally liable for FLSA claims made by employees of his company. See Irizarry v. Catsimatidis,…
The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) governs overtime pay in Texas. In a nutshell, the FLSA requires that employers pay their non-exempt employees one-and-a-half times their “regular rate” for every hour worked…
Call center employees are often required to work more than forty hours per week. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, employers are required to pay most workers one and a…
Employees in the health care industry are entitled to be paid for all hours they worked, whether they are at their usual work stations or not. Often, employers in the health care…
Every day it seems that there is another local headline of significant layoffs by a company trying to increase its profits. Even in Texas, where the economy has been stronger than elsewhere,…