TGI Friday’s is playing a game of legal Whac-A-Mole in an attempt to settle a class-action wage lawsuit by its employees before it goes to trial, Manhattan legal papers allege.
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A strip-club owner is getting sued for grabbing his dancer’s tips for himself.
Two ex-strippers at Cheetah’s Gentlemen’s Club & Restaurant in Times Square slapped Sam Zherka – who is already under indictment for lying on a loan application – with a class-action lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Friday, claiming he denied his dancers legal wages.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. must turn over attorney-client communications because it did not meet a “good-faith” compliance requirement under federal labor law, a New York federal magistrate judge ruled on Thursday in a collective action brought by employees who allege the chain misclassified them as overtime-exempt executives.
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19 JUN
Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP is a leading employment law firm, earning a reputation for aggressive advocacy and impressive results.
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19 JUN
Raymours Furniture Co. on Wednesday was slapped with a putative class action in New York federal court, alleging the retailer improperly withholds overtime and commission wages from its sales associates.
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19 JUN
A New York federal judge on Friday refused Barnes & Noble Inc.’s bid to sink a class action lawsuit alleging the bookseller stiffed its assistant store managers overtime pay, ruling that questions remain over whether the employees’ job duties excluded them from federal overtime pay law.
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19 JUN
A New York federal class action claiming Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. discriminated against a Mexican national enjoying protection from deportation marks a cagey attempt to leverage a Civil War-era ban on race bias in contracts and will leave many businesses vulnerable to so-called alienage suits if it succeeds, lawyers say.
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19 JUN
Chef Daniel Boulud at his eponymous eatery on the Upper East Side. The chef faces a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that claims he stiffed his servers on wages and tips.
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19 JUN
TGI Friday’s, one of the nation’s most popular casual dining chains, has been named in a class action lawsuit for systematically underpaying tipped workers.
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19 JUN
A bill to nearly double the hourly minimum wage large New York businesses pay to $15 would keep New York lawyers busy for years by setting the plaintiffs bar on the hunt for misclassifications and other missteps and spurring employers to argue the law doesn’t apply to them, experts said Wednesday.
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