Lawsuit Claims Rice Energy Owes Day-Rate Workers Unpaid Overtime

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A proposed class/collective action filed against oil and natural gas drilling outfit Rice Energy, Inc. claims the company owes unpaid overtime to day-rate workers. The lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania, alleges proposed class members routinely worked more than 40 hours per week between August 2014 and August 31, 2017 (the filing of this lawsuit) but were not paid time-and-a-half hourly premiums for all hours worked past 40 during those workweeks. At issue, the complaint argues, is that the defendants misclassified proposed class members as independent contractors exempt from overtime pay, rather than as employees subject to state and federal overtime protections.