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Worker lawsuit on chef’s plate

Fitapelli & Schaffer is a New York City employment law boutique that focuses on wage and hour class and collective actions.

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The jobs-search CEO and raunchy blogger who is getting set to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) was once sued for back pay and commissions by his own workers, who also accused him of threatening to punish them for seeking redress, according to court records obtained by The Huffington Post.

A former KPMG LLP associate accused the accounting firm on Tuesday in New York federal court of withholding overtime wages for a putative class of entry-level employees in its advisory services business, following a nearly identical suit lodged by audit associates.

Two former restaurant workers filed suit Friday in a New York federal court, claiming that an upscale Puerto Rican eatery co-owned by New York Mets player Carlos Beltran deprived a proposed class of minimum wages and overtime pay.

For restaurants, more lawsuits on the menu – improper payments, other infractions make them easy targets; some look to open outside New York.

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On August 8, 2010, Brian Schaffer of Fitapelli & Schaffer was a featured guest on CBS Eye on New York.

Nine former employees of the Peruvian-themed restaurant chain Pio Pio of New York, which operates restaurants in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, accuse the company of failing to pay workers minimum wages and overtime, in violation of state and federal law, a lawsuit filed today in New York federal court alleges.