May 21, 2021
Drilling consultants for a Colorado-based oil and natural gas company were not entitled to overtime pay because they were paid by salary and fit a federal labor law carveout for highly compensated employees, a federal judge ruled, terminating the conditional collective action.
February 08, 2021
An oil and natural gas company properly classified drilling consultants as independent contractors because they had their own businesses, the company argued in a bid for an early end to the consultants' conditionally certified overtime wages collective action in Colorado federal court.