NEWS & EVENTS

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.

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.

A strip-club owner is getting sued for grabbing his dancer’s tips for himself.

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.

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.

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.

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.