Moody International Development, whose clients include major oil companies like Exxon, BP, Mobil and Chevron, may owe thousands of dollars in back pay to hundreds of technical workers. “I have one plaintiff, for example, who worked 160 hours in a single pay period,” says attorney Charles Branham. “That is the equivalent of two eighty-hour work weeks, and they didn’t get paid overtime. That is an egregious violation.”
Branham has filed an overtime class action suit on behalf of all workers currently and formerly employed by Moody International as technical inspectors. “That’s a fancy way of saving they were called out to do inspections for various energy producers and manufacturers to make sure the boilers were working right,” says Branham.
“Workers are not paid overtime unless the underlying client agrees to pay them overtime,” says Branham, holding up his copy of the Moody International employee handbook. “And of course, these clients usually don’t,” he adds.
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