Abshire v. Redland Energy Services, LLC

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) provides that covered workers employed “for a workweek longer than forty hours” must be compensated “at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate” for work in excess of forty hours. 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1). Five current and former employees of Redland Energy Services, LLC (“Redland”), commenced this action alleging that Redland violated this overtime provision by changing the designation of their workweek, but not their work schedule, so that fewer hours qualified as “overtime.” Agreeing with a Department of Labor…