Cardinal FLSA sin costs employer $18.3M in overtime case

Christian Schappel

To terminate FLSA accusations against it brought on by the DOL, oil and gas giant Halliburton Co. will shell out $18.3M. Its mistake is always No. 1 on every list ever assembled of things employers should not do when employing salaried workers. 

Three examples of such lists can be found here, here and here.

The mistake in question: making all salaried employees exempt from overtime, without considering their income or whether they pass the duties tests.

According to a report by Reuters, the DOL said Halliburton automatically exempted all salaried workers from overtime without considering their pay or duties.

That’s a massive no-no. Still, it’s one that the DOL finds pretty often.

This mistake was caught as part of an ongoing multi-year compliance initiative by the DOL to investigate major players in the oil and gas industry for violations of the FLSA.

According to a release by the DOL, the agency’s investigators found that Halliburton incorrectly categorized employees in 28 job positions as exempt from overtime.


Some of the positions incorrectly classified as exempt:

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