{"id":1115,"date":"2019-01-28T21:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T21:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfwcounsel.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2019-01-28T21:34:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T21:34:58","slug":"overtime-pay-lawsuits-filed-against-energy-first-engineering-consulting-llc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/overtime-pay-lawsuits-filed-against-energy-first-engineering-consulting-llc\/","title":{"rendered":"Overtime pay lawsuits filed against Energy First Engineering &amp; Consulting, LLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four federal lawsuits have been filed against Energy First Engineering &amp; Consulting, LLC (\u201cEnergy First\u201d) within the past year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Each of these lawsuits alleges that Energy First violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, by misclassifying its workers as independent contractors and denying them overtime pay.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Energy First is an oil and gas staffing company that provides personnel categorized as supervisors, consultants, or helpers to oil and gas companies. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the lawsuits against Energy First illustrate an ongoing trend in the oil and gas industry.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many oil and gas producers and service companies are outsourcing their labor through \u201cconsulting\u201d or \u201cstaffing\u201d firms in an attempt to circumvent federal overtime pay laws.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Consulting firms that contract with these oil and gas companies in turn hire workers as independent contractors and pay them a day rate or flat hourly rate, and do not pay their workers overtime for each hour worked above forty.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In such cases, the issue is whether the workers truly are independent contractors or are instead employees, in which case they must be paid overtime unless they are otherwise exempt from overtime pay.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Most field workers are not subject to any exemptions under the FLSA. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you or a family member or friend have worked as an independent contractor or consultant for an oil and gas company within the past three years, you may have a claim for unpaid overtime, and you should consult with an experienced overtime pay attorney to discuss your legal rights.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Josh Borsellino is a Texas attorney that represents workers in claims for unpaid overtime.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For a free consultation regarding your overtime pay questions, call Josh at 817.908.9861 or 432.242.7118 or complete this free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfwcounsel.com\/contact\/\">form<\/a>. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0For more information regarding overtime pay violations in the oilfields, feel free to visit our firm\u2019s other website, <a href=\"http:\/\/oilfieldovertime.com\">oilfieldovertime.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four federal lawsuits have been filed against Energy First Engineering &amp; Consulting, LLC (\u201cEnergy First\u201d) within the past year.\u00a0 Each of these lawsuits alleges that Energy First violated the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, by misclassifying its workers as independent contractors and denying them overtime pay.\u00a0 Energy First is an oil and gas staffing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3895,3896,3897],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}