On November 5, 2015, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP and Pechman Law Group, PLLC filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Oaxaca restaurants in New York City. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of all servers, cooks, kitchen assistants, counterpersons, delivery persons, and other Restaurant Workers (collectively, “Restaurant Workers”) who work or have worked at Oaxaca Taqueria located at the Upper West Side (“Oaxaca Amsterdam”) located at 424 Amsterdam ...
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On November 5, 2015, Fitapelli & Schaffer LLP filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Lasership , Inc., and Mahmoud, Inc. (collectively, “Lasership” or “Defendants”). The lawsuit is filed on behalf of all delivery persons or “walkers” (collectively, “walkers”) who work or have worked at Lasership in New York.
The lawsuit alleges that the owners and operators of Lasership have instituted widespread practices and policies that violate their walkers ...
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On November 3, 2015, The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted Plaintiffs’ Motion for a 45 day extension of the deadline for potential plaintiffs to opt-in to the lawsuit against Carlson’s Restaurant Inc. and TGI Friday’s Inc. (collectively, “TGI Friday’s”). The lawsuit alleges that TGI Friday’s failed to pay its servers, bussers, runners, bartenders, barbacks, hosts and other tipped food service workers (“Tipped Employees”) proper minimum wage, overtime pay, spread-of-hours pay, and misappropriated tips, ...
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On Wednesday, October 21 2015, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed eight bills that make up part of the Women’s Equality Act (“WEA”), which was first initiated by Cuomo in 2012. These WEA bills are designed to end gender based inequality and discrimination. The bills signed involve equal pay for women, prohibition of employment discrimination, among many other issues. The bills will largely take effect within 90 days.
Specifically, one of the signed bills will prohibit employers from paying women less ...
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On October 15, 2015, the United States District Court for the District of Montana granted Plaintiff’s Motion for Conditional Certification and Notice against Exploration Drilling for Unpaid Overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). In granting Conditional Certification, the Court held that Plaintiff met his burden of establishing that he and the putative class members, consisting of Flowback Operators, are similarly situated. This determination by the Court was based off of six declarations, one from Plaintiff and the rest ...
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On Friday, September 25, 2015, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Numero 28 Pizzerias in New York. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of all servers, busboys, runners, bartenders, and other “Tipped Workers” who work or have worked at any of Numero 28 pizzerias in New York City. Numero 28’s New York City locations include the “West Village”- located at 28 Carmine Street, ...
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On Tuesday September 22, 2015, oil and gas service provider Halliburton came to an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to pay more than $18 million in unpaid overtime wages to over 1,000 of Halliburton employees across the nation. The DOL, in a news release, called it “one of the largest recoveries of overtime wages in recent years.”
Halliburton is one of the largest oil and gas service providers in the world. Halliburton has more than 70,000 employees, with ...
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On September 18, 2015, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP, filed a lawsuit in Supreme Court New York County against JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Abdool Shakur (collectively, Defendants). The lawsuit is filed on behalf of Gulshan Chhabra (“Plaintiff”), a former Relationship Banker at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The lawsuit alleges Defendants discriminated against Plaintiff based on his age and retaliated against him, in violation of the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”). Age is a protected category under the NYCHRL, therefore ...
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On September 10, 2015, New York Commissioner of Labor Mario Musolino adopted the Fast Food Wage Board’s recommendations regarding increasing the minimum wage for fast food workers in New York to $15 per hour. The Order will take place thirty days after notice is published in at least ten newspapers in New York.
Musolino approved the phase-in schedules for the minimum wage increase in New York City and the rest of the state. New York City’s minimum wage for fast food ...
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The New York City Commission on Human Rights amended the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”) by adding the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act (“SCDEA”). The SCDEA went into effect on September 3, 2015 and makes it unlawful and discriminatory for employers, labor organizations, and employment agencies to request or use the consumer credit history of an applicant for the purpose of making any employment decisions, including hiring, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment. N.Y.C. Admin. ...
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