Hughes v. Gulf Interstate Field Services, Inc.

OPINION

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Tom Hughes and Desmond McDonald served as welding inspectors for Gulf Interstate Field Services on a pipeline-construction project in Ohio between 2013 and 2014. In 2014, they and others similarly situated brought suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the comparable Ohio Minimum Fair Wage Standards Act (OMFWSA), asserting that they were entitled to overtime pay for weeks in which they worked more than forty hours. Gulf Interstate argued, and the district court ruled on summary judgment, that Hughes, McDonald, and other employees like them…