Halliburton to pay employees $18.3 million in owed overtime
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HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor reported Tuesday that Halliburton has agreed to pay about $18.3 million in overtime owed to 1,016 employees nationwide, in the aftermath of a department investigation.
In a news release, Labor called the $18,293,557 payment “one of the largest recoveries of overtime wages” for the department in years. Its Wage and Hour division investigated Halliburton as part of an ongoing compliance initiative in the oil and gas industry focusing on the Northeast and Southwest.
Halliburton, an oil and gas drilling services company based in Houston, provides services in the natural gas industry in Washington and Greene counties. It has 70,000-plus employees in more than 80 countries.
The Labor Department said Halliburton incorrectly listed employees in 28 job positions as being exempt from overtime when their workweek exceeded 40 hours. The job categories included field service representatives, pipe recovery specialists, drilling tech advisers, perforating specialists and reliability tech specialists. The Labor Department said Hallibuton also did not keep accurate records of hours that these employees worked.