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Oil and Gas companies siphon wages from their field workers.
If your boss's weekly strategy involves stiffing you out of overtime pay when you're on-call, do yourself a favor and make one phone call to our wage attorneys. You can find out for free if you have been scammed out of your wages.
Many workers are required to be on call 24/7 or on the weekends and have to stay within a certain distance from their job. Meanwhile, employers have no regard for your valuable time and don't even compensate you with your overtime premium. Overtime pay is not something employers can choose to pay - it is federally mandated for non-exempt employees.
Proving on-call time is compensable?
On-call time becomes compensable time when your employer asserts so much control that you can't effectively use that time for personal activities.
If you are on-call from home, here's one trick to increase your chances of making the time compensable:
Case in Point
Two Texas refinery employees sued their former employer claiming they were not paid correct overtime. The oil and gas employees claim that:
How the Fair Labor Standards Act protects YOU, the employee.
Oil and gas workers can perform a variety of functions, but many times are denied proper wages.
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The Texas overtime lawyers at Kennedy Hodges represent workers nationwide and across Texas in:
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