47.  Defendants undertake residential and commercial construction projects in  Louisiana.  Defendant’ services include construction, carpentry, remodeling and renovations.   Defendants employ more than 30 employees at any one time.      49.  Defendants paid Plaintiffs by check.   50.  Plaintiffs normally worked more than (40) hours a week for the Defendants.   Defendants required Plaintiffs to work six days per week.    51.  Defendants never paid Plaintiffs one-and-half times their hourly rate for all hours  worked in excess of forty in a workweek.   52.  Defendants willfully violated Plaintiffs’ rights under the FLSA because  Defendants knew or showed reckless disregard for the fact that their compensation practices  violated the FLSA.  Defendants were and are aware of the custom and practice of overtime pay  from their experience and expertise in the industry in which they work.   53.  Defendants paid the named Plaintiffs, and other similarly situated employees at an  hourly rate for work performed.   54.  Defendants treated the named Plaintiffs, and other similarly situated employees as  exempt from the FLSA’s overtime requirements.   56.  Plaintiffs incorporate by reference each of the preceding allegations as though  fully set forth herein.   57.  Plaintiffs bring the claims set forth in Count I, alleging violations of the FLSA, as  a putative collection action on behalf of themselves and an “FLSA Overtime Class,” consisting  of all current and former employees of the Defendants who are or have been employed by  Defendants during the three years immediately preceding the filing of this suit as hourly or non- exempt employees and who, during that period, worked in excess of forty hours in any work  week and failed to receive premium pay, at the rate of one-and-a-half times their regular rate of  pay, for all hours worked in excess of forty in a workweek.   58.  Defendants willfully violated the overtime provisions of the FLSA, 29 U.S.C. §  207(a) by not paying Plaintiff and other similarly situated employees one-and-a-half times their  regular rate for all hours worked in excess of forty in a workweek from at least August 2012 and  continuing until the present.    59.  As a consequence of Defendants’ FLSA violations, Plaintiffs and other similarly  situated employees are entitled to recover their unpaid overtime wages, plus an additional  amount in liquidated damages, pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 216(b).  Fair Labor Standards Act – FLSA Overtime Class  