Employees that work overtime want to get paid for the extra work, as Stingray Pressure Pumping LLC recently found out in a class action lawsuit settlement. The class action settlement not only includes compensation for the failure to pay overtime wages, it also includes language that charges Stingray Pressure Pumping LLC with the failure to maintain accurate employee working time records. Current and former employees due overtime compensation have the legal responsibility to present documentation of the extra work performed.
A former Stingray employee filed the class action lawsuit in which he claims the company did not pay overtime wages for the time he worked after his typical 40-hour work week. The former employee also added language to the lawsuit that alleges Stingray either failed to keep time clock records or the company destroyed the timekeeping records to prevent evidence from emerging in a lawsuit. Ten additional employees joined the original plaintiff in the Stingray class action lawsuit.
An Ohio judge approved the class action lawsuit settlement. Stingray Pressure Pumping Inc. has denied breaking any state or federal overtime compensation law.
What You Need to Know
Stingray employees that worked for the company between June 3, 2012 and February 24, 2017 might be eligible to receive compensation in the unpaid overtime class action settlement. Class members that want to contest any provision of the settlement or opt out of the agreement have until May 13, 2017 to file formal legal paperwork.
The potential award varies for each class member depending mostly on the number of unpaid overtime hours worked by each current or former employee. Class members that submit timely and legally valid claim forms might receive back pay, as well as compensation for damages that include accrued interest. According the class action settlement website www.StingraySettlement.com, “Class members who are eligible for a settlement payment will receive an amount consisting of 50 percent back pay and 50 percent liquidated damages and interest.
The case does not require a proof of purchase, but class members should provide the court with documentation of the hours worked, but not paid, for overtime. Eligible class members have until June 27, 2017 to file a claim form. Crigler v. Stingray Pressure Pumping LLC, Case No. 2:15-cv-02324-EAS-TPK, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has scheduled a final hearing on August 11, 2017. Class counsel includes Nicholas A. Migliaccio and Jason S. Rathod of Migliaccio & Rathod LLP, as well as attorneys from Robert Pierce & Associates PC, The Baker Law Group, and Whitfield Bryson & Mason LLP. Joshua K. Sekoski of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld represents Stingray Pressure Pumping Inc.
