Employment Bulletin
Individual, collective and class action lawsuits alleging misclassification of oil and gas industry employees under federal and state wage hour laws have flooded the Pennsylvania and Ohio dockets. This is occurring approximately two and a half years after the United States Department of Labor (DOL) prioritized an ongoing multi year enforcement initiative under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). By December 2014, this initiative resulted in more than 5,300 oil and gas industry employees recovering nearly $4.5 million in back wages for unpaid overtime and other wage violations.
