Baker Hughes agreed to pay $54,339,926.98 to settle all claims in the Lawsuit. Field Specialists employed by Baker Hughes were not paid overtime compensation to which they were entitled under the law. The Court will hold a Final Approval Hearing on August 4, 2015, before Magistrate Judge John Froeschner of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Afterward the money will be distributed to all affected field specialists. If you receive money from the Settlement, you will have 180 days to cash the checks from the Settlement Administrator. If you do not cash your check within this time period, your check will become void. Enjoy the windfall!
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I worked as supervisor from 2008 till June of 2011, then again from December 2011 till December of 2012. Can anyone tell me why I was never included in the law suit? Just curious. Could have a few bucks these last few years.
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How much did you get from the lawsuit
Got mine but it wasn't allot for 4 years back pay ..worked lots of on call and 24 hour periods off shore on salary ...when the crew got paid for evert our on platform...
We never heard about this lawsuit until today (February 2016). My husband would've been eligible but we never got any notification. This oilfield bust has taken away almost everything we had. This is yet another severely painful blow. Enjoy your checks and be greatful for them. We apparently have missed out.
Check arrived today in SoCal. Thank you! Baker Hughes is a good outfit, kind of shady though in that they expected you to take all of your vacation every year (which I didn't because of the workload) and if you did not mark down vacation days, Bakersfield Baker Hughes would penalize you on your year end bonus. Sign me up for that class action lawsuit!
Mine just came in today, also. It was dated September 30th.
Got our check today! Hopefully the rest of you do as well!
Just got my check...hope everyone else does too....
No money yet. I was told by a clerk at the law firm in early September, checks were going out in October. As far as the layoffs go, it was all a plan I could see developing with the arrival of AT Curve. They have high hopes of paying very little for some immigrant to be drilling several wells from the Beacon Center. Its all about the executive suite making as much as possible, you know.
I do my best to refrain from name calling and personal insults, trying to find common ground so that a productive discussion can take place. When someone says, "" Thanks SOOOOOO MUCH to the EX employees who filed this lawsuit!!!! You have screwed the rest of us!!!!!! That salary would be paying my bills right now!!!!! I find it impossible to refrain and would like to say, you are indeed a moron. Misinformed, Idiotic, and oblivious to how this actually went down. Doubtful that you know much of anything other than copying and pasting someone else's treatments and recommendations because you are lazy and stupid and too much of an asshole to educate yourself and be any better than the steaming pile of Retort Dirt you are. Funny how so many people that don't know their ass from a Marsh Funnel survive these layoffs when highly skilled, experienced workers with ten times the knowledge are let go. I know how that works too. Paid less, or a good ass kisser, or same last name as another Baker office personnel. You fail as a person, a Field Specialist, and as a Mud Anything. That lawsuit was filed in 2008. It was a LAW. Don't you think we all would prefer to have our jobs and our salaries? Rig Count is down again and there are zero job announcements, world-wide, for Mud Engineers that don't have an actual Engineering Degree, Masters level Education and 12-15 years experience. We haven't built the facilities needed to refine the oil or the pipelines/infrastructure needed to get the oil to neighboring countries that need it. Abundance of crude supply, Political Leaders that don't want the oil and gas industry to thrive, and the refusal to build things like the Keystone pipeline (also a political issue) is why people are being laid off and they aren't drilling, Not because of any lawsuit! Dickhead. Think and do some research before you blame others, you shallow, empty, useless, impotent, prick.
To the moron that wants to talk about this lawsuit taking food off his table, what about the employees who gave years of their lives and walk in to find out sorry we are laying you off since that time we have struggled to put food on our table.. So bring on the settlement check we need it desperately as well and sorry you aren't lucky enough to get one.. Pray that you are never put into our shoes and get to continue earning a paycheck with benefits!!!
Management has received theirs already....field hands check is suppose to be mailed Sept. 30 according to one of the lawyers. Will update post when I get mine...
https://eclaim.kccllc.net/caclaimforms/bkl/home.aspx
I called these folks to be certain they have my correct address. I wish I had asked when!
Has anyone received their checks? It sure would be nice if they would update us on the status of them considering it was approved Aug. 4th!!
Let me guess. Baker Hughes will wait till the last possible second before the takeover by Hallibortion to pay this AGREED to settlement. In the meantime, we are starving!!!!!!!!!
Has anyone received a check yet?
All that OT is great during feast times, but in these famine times we are going through now, we are screwed! Thanks SOOOOOO MUCH to the EX employees who filed this lawsuit!!!! You have screwed the rest of us!!!!!! That salary would be paying my bills right now!!!!!
Baker Hughes has always been known for treating their people poorly
Months before they will see any of their earned money. People tend to drag their feet when paying a large sum of cash.
If you think Baker did not get their revenge think again. They transferred all of the Field Specialist to hourly instead of salary. Instead of basing the hourly rate on a 40 hour work week as they should have. They based it on a 60 hour work week and guaranteed everyone 60 hours minimum. They even said it would never be lowered during their presentation of this change. They then cut the guaranteed 60 hours to 40, cutting their base pay and benefits by 30%. They did not reduce anyone else's pay just this group of people. This was done for pure retaliation, However, it was done behind a slim veneer of legality. Unethical YES but legal in all states but California. Then they laid off a huge group of specialist, these people discovered that their unemployment benefits are based on the lower amount. Baker cut their pay, cut their benefits, and found a way to cut their government benefits as well. Baker recovered every penny they had to pay out from the pockets of the people that worked for them. They recovered the amount and more prior to even paying it out. Unethical and clearly a violation of the listed Core Values of Baker Hughes. Bakers primary policy should read "Do As I Say Not As I Do".
Dinna make sense