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26 NOV

T.G.I. FRIDAYS LAWSUIT

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On November 20, 2012, Fitapelli & Schaffer filed a class action lawsuit against The Riese Organization, Inc., who owns and/or operates 10 T.G.I. Friday’s in Manhattan.  T.G.I. Friday’s is a popular restaurant brand with more than 500 locations worldwide. This lawsuit alleges that T.G.I. Friday’s failed to pay proper minimum wages, overtime pay, spread-of-hours pay, and call in pay to servers, bussers, runners, bartenders, barbacks and other tipped workers as required under the federal ...

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16 NOV

CHIPOTLE LAWSUIT

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Fitapelli & Schaffer filed a class and collective action against Chipotle Mexican Grill, a “fast casual” restaurant chain with over 1300 locations nationwide.  The lawsuit alleges that Chipotle failed to pay their Apprentices and Assistant Managers proper overtime compensation by misclassifying them as exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Laws.  We allege that Salaried Apprentices performed the same work as hourly employees, primarily working ...

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16 NOV

Yankee Stadium Banquet Servers Lawsuit

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On November 15, 2012, Fitapelli & Schaffer filed a class and collective action lawsuit against Legends Hospitality, LLC and New York Yankees Partnership (collectively, “Yankees”).  The lawsuit alleges that Yankees led their customers to believe that the mandatory service charge during private catering events was a gratuity that would be distributed to the Banquet Servers.  However, the Yankees retained a portion of this gratuity/service charge.  Moreover, the Yankees failed to pay its Banquet Servers ...

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10 AUG

DANIEL BOULUD LAWSUIT

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On August 10, 2012, Fitapelli & Schaffer filed a class and collective action lawsuit against The Dinex Group and Daniel Boulud, the world-renowned celebrity chef.  The lawsuit alleges that Boloud’s restaurants, including Bar Boloud fail to pay proper minimum wage, overtime and spread of hours to tipped restaurant workers.  Many of these violations stem from non-tip eligible employees participating in the tip pool, including polishers, expediters and the Maitre’ D.  Under New York law, ...

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25 JUL

HEARST UNPAID INTERNS WIN CONDITIONAL CERTIFICATION

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In the recent decision of Wang v. Hearst Corporation, 2012 WL 2864524, the Court denied the defendant-employer’s motion to strike the class and collective action allegations made by the plaintiff-employees and granted the plaintiff’s cross-motion for conditional certification and court-authorized notice to potential class members pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §216(b).

Plaintiff’s proposed class consisted of interns who worked at 19 magazines, owned and operated by defendant, performing tasks necessary to the employer’s operations such as ...

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24 JUL

FLSA DECERTIFICATION DECISION

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In a recent decision, Morano v. Intercontinental Capital Group, 2012 WL 2952893, the Court dismissed the employees’ nationwide collective action against their employer because all the plaintiffs were not “similarly situated.”  The Court recommended that the employees propose workable classes and resubmit their collective action or that each individual employee bring their own lawsuit.

Plaintiffs in the case were loan officers at Intercontinental Capital Group, Inc. (defendants).  The employees brought their claims as a nationwide collective action claiming that their Intercontinental ...

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12 JUL

CLASS ACTION ARBITRATION

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A Federal Court in New York recently agreed with an Arbitrator’s award permitting the employees to seek their New York Labor Law (“NYLL”) and Fair Labor Standard Act (“FLSA”) claims on a class-wide or collective action basis, despite the arbitration agreement not expressly giving the employees this option.  The employees worked as tipped, hourly food service workers at their employers’ restaurants.  During their employment, the employees received a handbook with a dispute resolution policy (“DRP”) and they also received a ...

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10 JUL

NEW YORK HOME HEALTH CARE OVERTIME

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In the first class-wide settlement of its kind, employees of a home care agency reached an agreement with their employer to settle their overtime compensation claims.  The New York State Court approved a settlement that awarded the employees $1.1 million.  The employees worked as home health aides for McMillan’s Home Care Agency.  The employees alleged that their employer failed to pay them overtime at one and one half times their regularly hourly rate, despite frequently working up to 60 hours ...

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2 JUL

RECRUITERS ARE ENTITLED TO OVERTIME PAY

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In a recent case, the employees of a class action lawsuit were awarded $12.3 million to settle their overtime claims.  The employees worked as health care and staffing recruiters for Maxim Healthcare Services Inc., a national health care staffing company.  The employees alleged that they worked in excess of 40 hours per workweek and were not paid any overtime wages as required under various State Labor Laws and the Federal Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”).  The employees’ job duties consisted of ...

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2 JUL

ENERGY COMPANY OVERTIME SETTLEMENT

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Last week, Allis-Chalmers Energy agreed to pay $1.9 million to their employees to resolve an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit.  Back on November 30, 2010, employees of Allis-Chalmers Energy, an oil and gas servicing company, filed a lawsuit alleging that their employer failed to pay them overtime.  The employees were employed as field operators who were primarily engaged in manual labor duties such as transporting, installing and maintaining oil and gas drilling equipment such as fluid lines and air compressors.  ...

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