Armed with deep experience in class and collective actions, Fitapelli & Schaffer successfully fights to right workplace wrongs for employees. The firm is committed to making an impact and ensuring employees get treated fairly. Its lawyers have won numerous victories against major employers in state and federal courts nationwide.
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Four former Rosa Mexicano service employees filed a putative nationwide class action against the upscale Mexican restaurant chain in New York federal court Friday, claiming it routinely violated state and federal labor laws by, among other things, failing to pay overtime and minimum wages.
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Nearly 90 current and former sales representatives of car dealers asked a New York federal court Thursday for final approval of a $5.5 million class action settlement over New York labor law claims, saying the deal is fair, reasonable and adequate.
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Servers and other tipped restaurant workers have sued P.F. Chang’s in federal court, claiming the casual Asian restaurant chain didn’t pay them what was required by wage laws.
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Workers at Delmonico’s Italian Steakhouse claim management circumvented minimum wage laws by forcing tipped workers to complete a significant amount of cleaning and food prep without compensating them properly.
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Cuomo signs antidiscrimination legislation aimed at protecting women
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22 OCT
Ageism in U.S. workplace: a persistent problem unlikely to go away.
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30 SEP
Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP is a leading employment law firm, earning a reputation for aggressive advocacy and impressive results.
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1 APR
A New York City law firm says it has filed a class action lawsuit accusing the Syracuse-based Dinosaur Bar-B-Que chain of failing to pay its tipped workers fair wages.
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1 APR
A New York federal judge on Tuesday granted conditional certification to a 42,000-worker nationwide class of tipped TGI Friday’s employees in a collective action alleging they had to perform underpaid side work in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.