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Two recent cases out of California show workers earning substantial victories against employers and the value and importance of class action lawsuits in recovering unpaid wage claims.   Improperly Denying Overtime Pay to Hundreds of Workers First, Ecolab Inc. settled a class action suit based...

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Unfortunately, it's not at all uncommon for workers to be paid "straight time for overtime" these days. The problem presents itself in a wide array of industries, including: restaurants, oil and gas drilling, medical, CAD design, engineering, and disaster response and recovery. The overwhelming majority...

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Millions of workers in all types of industries are having their wages stolen by employers who fail to comply with federal and state wage and hour laws. Unfortunately, wage theft is particularly common in oil field jobs, specifically: service technicians solids control operators mud loggers...

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Back to Truck Drivers Equipment Operators Truck Drivers and Overtime Pay Truck Drivers that are NOT Eligible for Overtime Pay Many truck drivers are exempt from the overtime law which means they are not entitled to overtime pay.  Under the Motor Carrier Act exemption, drivers,...

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A Harris Interactive® survey recently revealed that around half of the workers in the U.S. believe their employers are violating overtime pay laws. Unfortunately, many of them are correct. The federal government has increased the enforcement of overtime pay laws, and wage and hour claims...

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Millions of workers in all types of industries are having their wages stolen by employers who fail to comply with federal and state wage and hour laws.  The dollar amounts that workers are losing due to these illegal practices are staggering.  Even by conservative estimates...

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A recent study commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the extraction of “unconventional” shale oil and gas through horizontal hydraulic fracturing (a/k/a fracking) has created approximately 1.7 million new jobs and expects that number to more than double in the next 20 years....

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There is no shortage of work these days for the oil and gas companies involved in exploration and production in the Marcellus, Eagle Ford and Bakken shale formations. The good news is that all of this activity has created thousands of oil field jobs and...

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Employers in Illinois are required to cover all payroll taxes, pay minimum wage and overtime, and contribute to unemployment, worker’s compensation, and medical insurance for all non-exempt employees. These obligations only apply to a contractor’s “employees,” so contractors often illegally classify their employees as something...

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Claims adjusters working for BP and Worley Catastrophe Response in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have filed a lawsuit claiming that as day rate workers they are owed overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The adjusters claim that they were...

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