Feds Target Oil and Gas Industry for Underpaying Workers
![Exhibit from lawsuit: worker's time sheet showing 90 hours in eight days](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141031035412im_/http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/files/2014/06/Exhibits-US-Distrcit-Court-018-100x100.jpg)
In states with the most oil and gas drilling, including Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota, the U.S. Department of Labor has won back pay for over 4,000 energy industry workers in just the past year. It totaled $6.7 million dollars, accounting for a third of all such settlements by all types of industries nationwide. “We [...]