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Are Oilfield Workers Being Cheated Out of Overtime Pay? Wage theft in the oilfield is rampant. Oilfield workers are the backbone of the energy industry, working long hours in tough conditions to [...]

Oilfield Workers are Entitled to Overtime Pay The law generally requires oilfield workers to be paid overtime wages—even if you are paid a day rate. If you work overtime in the oil and gas [...]

Salaried-Exempt from Overtime? A federal court of appeals recently issued an opinion holding that, if an employee is paid a day rate (i.e. paid “by-the-day”) that employee is not [...]

One of the most commonly misapplied exemptions from overtime is the Administrative Exemption. In my experience, lots of employers wrongly assume that their employees are exempt from overtime just [...]

Overused Overtime Exemptions Employers often attempt to illegally cloak their employees with overtime exemptions to avoid paying overtime in accordance with federal law. The most common overtime [...]

The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) overtime law requires employees to receive overtime pay for hours over forty (40) in week, unless the employee is “exempt” from overtime. Generally, an [...]

Texas Labor Laws: Minimum Wage & Overtime Pay Unpaid Overtime and Minimum Wage claims are the subject of many, many lawsuits across Texas and across the Country. As a general rule, employees [...]