The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced what it’s calling “one of the largest recoveries of overtime wages in recent years.” Halliburton, an oil and gas service provider, has agreed to pay $18,293,557 for overtime owed to 1,016 employees nationwide.
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The DOL explained that its Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigated Halliburton as part of an ongoing, multi-year compliance initiative in the oil and gas industry in the Southwest and Northeast. DOL investigators found Halliburton incorrectly categorized employees in 28 job positions as exempt from overtime.
According to the DOL, Haliburton did not pay overtime to these salaried employees when they worked more than 40 hours in a workweek, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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