Collective Action Claims Devon Energy Corp. Misclassified Safety Workers

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Oil field exploration and production company Devon Energy Corp. is the defendant in a former safety consultant’s proposed collective action that claims he and other workers were improperly—and illegally—misclassified as independent contractors exempt from overtime pay. Filed in Oklahoma, the lawsuit alleges the plaintiff—who worked for the defendant from December 2012 through August 2015—and similarly situated workers were typically scheduled to work 12-hour shifts seven days per week for weeks on end. Instead of paying proper time-and-a-half overtime for all hours worked past 40, however, the defendant allegedly intentionally misclassified the workers to skirt its overtime wage obligations outlined in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).