December 06, 2022
A West Virginia federal judge shipped a natural gas field worker's unpaid-overtime claims to arbitration after determining that the worker signed a binding arbitration agreement with a third-party staffing firm.
October 12, 2022
An oil drilling company told a West Virginia federal court that arbitration agreements three workers signed with his staffing firm designatd the right to arbitrate disputes to third parties, and that arbitration of unpaid overtime claims was appropriate.
March 14, 2022
An energy company illegally withheld overtime pay from workers by paying them a daily fixed rate even when they clocked 80 hours a week, a drilling site safety adviser said in a proposed collective action in West Virginia federal court.