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Supreme Court Sides With Offshore Worker in Overtime Case

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June 12, 2023
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Supreme Court Sides With Offshore Worker in Overtime Case
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An oil well manager that made greater than $200,000 a year benefiting Houston- based Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc is qualified to overtime pay, the united state Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a choice with pricey effects for the oil and also gas sector.

The court in a 6-3 choice authored by liberal Justice Elena Kagan determined that due to the fact that the gear manager, Michael Hewitt, was paid an everyday price of $963 and also not a wage, an overtime pay exception in government wage legislation for very paid employees did not put on him.

The justices verified a 2021 judgment by the New Orleans- based fifth united state Circuit Court of Appeals that Helix needs to deal with Hewitt’s 2017 suit looking for overtime pay. That suit currently returns to a government court in Houston.

A 1940 law holds that very made up employees – presently specified as those making $107,000 a year or even more – would certainly not obtain overtime pay if they have managerial obligations and also are paid at the very least $455 weekly in the type of a wage.

Kagan stated the message of the law explained that it did not put on staff members that are paid based upon the amount of days they function and also are not assured minimal once a week earnings.

Ed Sullivan, a legal representative for Hewitt, stated that “my client and team are appreciative that the Supreme Court applied the plain text of the law to his case.”

Helix did not quickly reply to an ask for remark.

Helix was backed in the event by oil and also gas profession teams consisting of the American Petroleum Institute, which stated in briefs to the justices that managers in the sector are regularly paid everyday prices and also job lengthy hrs. A judgment preferring Hewitt would certainly call for business to pay overtime costs and also welcome a flooding of legal actions from very paid employees, the teams included.

Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett and also John Roberts signed up with the court’s 3 liberal participants in the judgment.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a dissent signed up with by fellow conventional Justice Samuel Alito, created that due to the fact that Hewitt made an established everyday price, he recognized he would certainly be paid at the very least that a lot for any kind of week in which he functioned. That paired with his monitoring obligations made him excluded from overtime pay, Kavanaugh stated.

Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch in a different dissent stated Helix’s charm ought to have been rejected for step-by-step factors.

(Reuters – Reporting by Daniel Wiessner, New York; Editing by Will Dunham and also Alexia Garamfalvi)

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