Tug Hill Fails to Force Worker’s Overtime Arbitration on Appeal

Tug Hill Operating LLC lost its bid to undo a ruling allowing a worker to avoid arbitrating his wage-and-hour claims against the company, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.

The oil-and-gas company argued that it should get to enforce an arbitration pact a worker signed with a third-party staffing agency. But the lower court correctly determined that the worker signed the contract as an agent for his own company and the arbitration agreement doesn’t bind him personally, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said in an unpublished opinion.

The dispute involves issues similar to Tug Hill’s ...