A former field employee has filed a federal lawsuit in Midland, Texas seeking unpaid overtime against Spartan Flow Control.\u00a0 Spartan provides pressure control and flow back services in the oil and gas industry.\u00a0 The former worker primarily worked in the Permian Basin, in the areas surrounding Midland, Texas.\u00a0 While employed by Spartan, the employee worked significantly more than forty hours per week.\u00a0 Instead of paying him overtime, Spartan paid the worker a salary.\u00a0 As such, Spartan denied the worker overtime for any and all hours worked in excess of 40 in a single work week.\u00a0 As a field employee, the worker performed a significant amount of manual labor, including building flow backs, bringing equipment to well-sites, provided pressure relief for\u00a0 hydraulic fracturing, provided flow control during drillouts, rigging up and rigging down equipment, and performing well testing, flow control, and monitoring.\u00a0 The plaintiff seeks unpaid overtime, liquidated damages, attorney\u2019s fees and other remedies under the FLSA.<\/p>\n
About the author:<\/b> Josh Borsellino represents oilfield workers in and around the Permian Basin and across Texas\u00a0in cases involving overtime pay. \u00a0If you work or worked within the past three years in the oilfield or in the oil and gas industry and have questions about whether you may be entitled to unpaid overtime, call Josh Borsellino at 817.908.9861 or submit a case inquiry at http:\/\/www.dfwcounsel.com\/contact\/<\/a> for a free consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former field employee has filed a federal lawsuit in Midland, Texas seeking unpaid overtime against Spartan Flow Control.\u00a0 Spartan provides pressure control and flow back services in the oil and gas industry.\u00a0 The former worker primarily worked in the Permian Basin, in the areas surrounding Midland, Texas.\u00a0 While employed by Spartan, the employee worked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3886,3895,3896,3897],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfwcounsel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}