Seneca Resources, National Fuel Gas Company Drilled with Oilfield Worker’s FLSA Lawsuit

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An individual formerly employed as a solids control technician by Seneca Resources and National Fuel Gas Company claims in a proposed class and collective action that the oil and natural gas exploration outfits misclassified workers and thusly owe unpaid overtime. Filed in Pennsylvania, the lawsuit claims the plaintiff and similarly situated day-rate workers were never paid rightful time-and-a-half wages as a result of being misclassified by the defendants as independent contractors exempt from overtime. The plaintiff, who the case says worked for the defendants from May 2015 through November 2016, argues his and proposed class members’ job duties—separating drilling fluid from solids—as well as the defendants’ extent of control over their workdays do not allow for the individuals to be classified as independent contractors exempt from overtime.