From the U.S. Department of Labor new release:
MISSION, TX – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Mobile Diesel Services LLC – based in Mission, Texas – has paid $139,165 to 47 employees to resolve violations of the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
WHD investigators found that the employer, which provides diesel mechanic service to oil fields in the area, violated FLSA overtime requirements when it paid straight time to hourly employees, rather than overtime, when they worked over 40 hours in a workweek. The law requires employers to pay overtime at time-and-one-half workers’ regular rates of pay for those hours. Mobile Diesel also violated FLSA recordkeeping requirements.
“Oil field employees work hard for their money and must be paid all the wages they legally earn,” said Wage and Hour Division District Director Nathan Barrow, in McAllen, Texas. “We encourage employers to contact us with any federal labor law questions and to take advantage of all resources the department makes available to them. Violations like those in this case can be avoided, so that workers receive what they have earned, and that employers compete on a level playing field.”
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