Bar Louie Faces Yet Another Wage Lawsuit

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It seems as though the restaurant industry just does not want to clean up its act when it comes to paying its workers correctly. This is at least the case for BL Restaurant Operations LLC, also known as Bar Louie, that has been hit with yet another wage lawsuit.  Back on April 20, 2017 Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP along with Shellist Lazarz Slobin LLP, filed an amended class action complaint against the upscale nationwide bar/restaurant on behalf of tipped employees. ...

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AUG
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Employment Law

Oilfield Workers Sue Hess for Unpaid Overtime

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The oilfield giant, Hess Corporation, has been hit with yet another lawsuit seeking to recover unpaid wages for its oilfield workers. The wage lawsuit alleges that Hess Corporation failed to pay certain oilfield workers overtime pay as required by state and federal law. The lawsuit seeks to recover damages for unpaid overtime for worked in excess of forty hours per workweek. Affected employees include any current or former oilfield workers such as Rig Clerks or other similarly situated employees who ...

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Class Action, FLSA

Incinia Contracting Sued for Unpaid Overtime

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On Friday, July 28, 2017 Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP along with Pechman Law Group PLLC filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of two asbestos handlers and their similarly situated co-workers who worked at Incinia Contracting. This full service environmental company with over a decade of servicing the public and private sectors has allegedly failed to pay its hourly employees overtime at time and a half their regular hourly rate for hours worked over 40 in a work week.

This lawsuit ...

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JUL
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Class Action, FLSA, Unpaid Wages

Magistrate Judge Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Corrective Notice in Restaurant Case

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In November 2015, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP, along with the Pechman Law Group, PLLC, filed a class and collective action complaint against the well-known New Jersey restaurants Segovia Steakhouse & Seafood and Segovia Restaurant. The lawsuit alleged that the Defendants failed to pay their tipped employees, such as servers, bussers, food runners, and bartenders, proper minimum and overtime wages for all hours worked.

On April 28, 2017, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP sent the Court-approved Notice of Collective Action to all current ...

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JUN
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FLSA

Notice to be Sent for Nick’s Pizzabar Class Action

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In March 2017, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP filed a class and collective action lawsuit against Nick’s Pizzabar located at 365 3rd Avenue, New York, New York 10016.  The lawsuit seeks to recover minimum wages, uniform maintenance pay, unlawful deductions, and other wages for all current and former delivery workers.  Among other claims, the lawsuit alleges that Defendants failed to provide proper notice to delivery workers that would enable the company to take a “tip credit” towards the hourly rates paid ...

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JUN
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Class Action, Class Certification, Employment Law

Court Denies Raymour & Flanigan’s Motion to Compel Arbitration in TCPA Class Action Case

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On February 16, 2017, a class action lawsuit was filed by Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP and Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC against Raymour & Flanigan (“Raymour”) for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by sending text messages to recipients’ cellular phones without their prior written consent.  The TCPA makes it unlawful to make any calls, send any text messages, and/or send any faxes to a person or business, for commercial reasons, without that person’s express written consent.  Each ...

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JUN
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TCPA

Plaintiffs Granted Conditional Certification in P.F. Chang’s Case

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On May 15, 2017, in the case of Black et al.  v.  P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., No. 16 Civ. 03968, Judge Robert M. Dow Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division granted Plaintiffs’ motion for conditional certification of a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Plaintiffs originally commenced this action on April 1, 2016, on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated current and former tipped workers employed at ...

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Class Certification

Verizon to Lay Off Thousands of Workers During AOL-Yahoo Merger

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As Verizon’s AOL unit merger over Yahoo takes effect, thousands are expected to be laid off. The communications behemoth will be merging departments like human resources, finance, marketing and general administration and would have obvious overlap. They estimate that about 2,100 people in both the New York and California offices would be in redundant positions as the union finishes taking shape.

With layoffs in larger companies, it may be common to receive some sort of severance package ...

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JUN
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Employment Law

Employee of 30 Minutes Receives 100K for Pregnancy Discrimination

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In early 2015, a female applicant of a brokerage firm in Florida was hired, only to be fired within the hour after inquiring about their maternity policy and disclosing she was pregnant. Her offer was abruptly rescinded citing that they needed someone who would be in the position for the “long-term”. The applicant filed a claim with the EEOC for pregnancy discrimination in July of 2016 and recently settled her case for $100,000 in damages and an agreement that the ...

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MAY
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Discrimination

Fox News Forces Bill O’Reilly Out Amidst Sexual Harassment Claims

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Fox News has had a tumultuous year dealing with sexual harassment claims in the workplace. Last year several lawsuits were filed against its former Chairman and network CEO Roger Ailes alleging sexual harassment. One of these cases even settled for an astounding $20 million dollars. In the last couple of months the news channel had been dealing a series of sexual harassment lawsuits against its top-rated host, Bill O’Reilly, which prompted an internal investigation that in turn revealed ...

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sexual harassment

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