{"id":13056,"date":"2013-08-23T21:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T21:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfwcounsel.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2013-08-23T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T21:30:42","slug":"cell-tower-companies-must-pay-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/cell-tower-companies-must-pay-overtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Cell Tower Workers Due Overtime Pay?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cellular providers are racing to build advanced cellphone networks, according to the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a>. \u00a0The subcontractors who build, upgrade and maintain these cell phone towers are working their employees around the clock in an attempt to keep up with the demands of these cell phone carriers. \u00a0Because of the race to build these cell phone towers, crews for the companies building, reworking and maintaining them for the phone carriers are regularly working 12- to 16-hour days, or more.<\/p>\n

While nothing prevents the cell tower construction companies from requiring their workers to work more than forty hours per week, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that the workers be paid one-and-a-half times their “regular rate” for every hour worked in excess of forty, as long as the worker is not exempt from the FLSA’s overtime requirements. \u00a0Because they are performing manual work, most cell tower employees will not be exempt, and thus should be paid overtime under the FLSA. \u00a0Some of the positions that are likely required to be paid overtime are the following:<\/p>\n