Field Engineers in Oil & Gas Industry Represented by Nichols Kaster, PLLP File Overtime Lawsuit against Baker Hughes

    BISMARCK, ND, May 01, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- On April 30, 2015, a former employee of Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc. filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota seeking overtime pay. He brought the case on behalf of field engineers who worked for Baker Hughes at oil fields across the country. In the complaint, he alleges that Baker Hughes misclassified him and other field engineers as exempt employees, asserting that the labor they perform as field engineers does not fit under any of the exemptions from the law's overtime pay requirements.

Baker Hughes is one the largest petroleum industry servicing companies in the world and employs 53,000 employees in 80 countries around the world.

Plaintiff's attorney Paul Lukas stated, "field engineers typically work long hours in the oil fields (often 12-hour days for 15 days straight) without receiving overtime compensation. We seek to get them paid the overtime premiums to which they are entitled by law."

Plaintiffs are represented by Paul J. Lukas and Carl F. Engstrom from Nichols Kaster, PLLP in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The case is entitled, Williams v. Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc., No.: 1:15CV00049 (District of North Dakota).

Additional information about how to make a claim in the case may be found at www.nka.com or by calling Nichols Kaster, PLLP toll free at (877) 448-0492.

Nichols Kaster is a nationally recognized plaintiffs firm that focuses on representing employees and consumers whose rights have been violated. The firm was selected as a member of the National Law Journal's Litigation Boutiques Hot List, ranked as a Best Law Firm by U.S. News & World Report, selected as a top plaintiffs' employment law firm by Law360 and named one the top 50 Elite Trial Lawyers by The National Law Journal and Law.com.

The firm is led by its partners, who are regularly selected by their peers as Super Lawyers, and sit on the boards of numerous professional organizations, including the National Association of Employment Lawyers, the ABA Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee and the Council for the Minnesota State Bar Association's Consumer Litigation Section.

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