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Freeport McMoRan Oil & Gas Wage Settlement

Court case: Garcia v. Freeport McMoRan Oil & Gas, LLC

This settlement covered hourly employees of Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas who worked overnight shifts of 24 hours or more on California offshore platforms between April 2012 and March 2020. The claims process has closed, and payments to those who filed are already being distributed.

All current and former hourly employees of Defendant Freeport McMoRan Oil & Gas, LLC ., who, at any time from April 1, 2012, through March 13, 2020 (“Class Period”), worked on oil platforms off the California coast on the Outer Continental Shelf ( consisting of submerged lands, subsoil, and seabed more than three nautical miles off the mainland ) for periods of 24 hours or more, stayed offshore overnight, and whose offshore shifts or hitches began from and ended on California soil. Checked against the official settlement source by SettleSignal on September 14, 2026.