The oil and gas sector is infamous for demanding that employees work long hours. Therefore, it is not surprising that during the past few years, the U.S. Department of Labor has ramped up an enforcement initiative targeting companies in the oil and gas industry in the Southwest and the Northeast that may be misclassifying workers as independent contractors or as exempt from overtime.
After the Labor Department enforcement push began in 2012, it proceeded to yield at least $4.5 million in back wages for 5,300 oil and gas industry workers by December 2014, according to the department. However, that amount was just a warm-up to its most recent action. In one of the largest Labor Department recoveries of overtime wages in recent years, Halliburton has agreed to pay $18,293,557 to 1,016 employees nationwide, according to a statement recently issued by the department.
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