News | Nov 04, 2016
Pete Winebrake Quoted in ‘Halliburton to pay $18M in Back Pay for Unpaid Overtime’ Article
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News | Nov 04, 2016
Pete Winebrake Quoted in ‘Halliburton to pay $18M in Back Pay for Unpaid Overtime’ Article
StateImpact, a broadcast and online publication which explores state issues, recently quoted Pete Winebrake of Winebrake and Santillo LLC, in an article on the agreement for oil giant, Halliburton, to pay $18M in back pay for unpaid overtime.
Halliburton discovered the unpaid overtime issue during a self-audit and reported it to the government. After investigation by U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour division, Halliburton was found to have incorrectly classified employees in 28 job positions as “exempt from overtime” and failed to have kept accurate record of employees’ work hours. Winebrake says these “misclassifications” are common in the oil and gas industry.
The Labor department called it ‘one of the largest recoveries of overtime wages in recent years’. Thirty-nine workers in Pennsylvania will receive $800,000 in back pay.
Read the StateImpact Halliburton Unpaid Overtime Agreement article here.
Winebrake and Santillo LLC, has recovered millions of dollars for employees in the Oil and Natural Gas industry. In our experience, companies associated with the oil and natural gas industry often cheat employees out of overtime pay.
The illegal practices include:
Please call us at (215) 884-2491 if you or someone you know believes that he or she has not received full overtime pay. All phone consultations are confidential and free.
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