A federal judge has ordered that oil and gas workers who were awarded overtime pay at trial in a Fair Labor Standards Act case are now entitled to twice the amount the jury handed up.

U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney of the Western District of Pennsylvania approved the eight plaintiffs’ request for liquidated damages, doubling the combined amount of back overtime from approximately $498,000 to nearly $1 million.

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