Hot Demand for Laid Off Oilfield Workers in Chemical Plant Construction – Don’t Get Burned by Familiar Overtime Pay Schemes
major layoffs are occurring throughout the oil and gas drilling industry, but there is some good news on the energy jobs front as well. As the drilling business slows, major energy players are aggressively moving ahead with plans to build a number of chemical plants, and they are hiring. Many oilfield workers already have the construction and manufacturing skills being sought by employers involved in the construction of these facilities and are a hot commodity.
In making the transition from the oilfield to chemical industrial plant construction, workers will find a number of similarities – including demands to work schedules that require many hours of mandatory overtime. They will also find some familiar pay schemes that purport to cover all of those long hours without the payment of proper overtime wages. Such schemes commonly include:
We all know the bad news – - Day Rate Pay
- Hourly Straight Time Pay
- Salary Based Pay for Non-Management “field” Jobs