October 03, 2022
A Fifth Circuit ruling that found crew members aboard lift boats that service oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico don’t qualify for an exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime requirement highlights the appeals court’s textualist approach. Here, Law360 details three cases that outline the ruling's ongoing impact.
September 30, 2021
A mixed Fifth Circuit on Thursday denied a liftboat-operating company's request for a rehearing of a panel decision that found crane operators who load goods on and offshore aren't overtime-exempt under federal law, despite two judges saying the ruling threatens the liftboat industry.
September 17, 2021
A company that operates liftboats for offshore rigs urged the full Fifth Circuit on Friday to consider one of its own recent rulings as judges weigh the company's bid for en banc review of an overtime suit brought by a group of crane operators.
May 24, 2021
From spelling out the limits of California’s A.B. 5 test for independent contractor classification to deciding whether boat crane operators count as “seamen,” appeals courts have been making important decisions about wage and hour law. Here are five opinions from recent months you may have missed.
May 06, 2021
Crane operators said there's no reason for the full Fifth Circuit to review a panel's decision to revive their claims they were shorted on wages, saying their employer is wrongly arguing that they should be classified as overtime-exempt seamen.
March 12, 2021
The full Fifth Circuit should rehear an overtime case brought by crane operators against a company that operates liftboats for offshore oil and gas rigs, the company urged in a filing, saying an appeals panel's ruling that the operators were not seamen went against precedent.
February 12, 2021
Crane operators who transfer supplies on and off docks, boats and oil rigs don't count as seamen and therefore aren't exempt from overtime under federal labor law, the Fifth Circuit held, reversing a lower-court ruling in a conditionally certified collective action over unpaid wages.