NEWS & EVENTS

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.

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.

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.

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.

A New York state appeals court has rekindled a suit accusing the Yankee Stadium’s premium catering company of failing to pass tips along to waiters, ruling that the plaintiffs’ state labor claim was not preempted by federal law.

A bill that would empower local New York governments to raise their minimum wages without state approval could narrow a cost-of-living chasm between downstate and upstate, experts said Wednesday, but so me warned of unintended consequences including higher compliance costs and potentially confusing layers of oversight.

Royal Health Care of Long Island LLC has agreed to pay $1.94 million to settle a class action claiming it violated federal and state labor laws by shorting some employees on overtime pay, according to a motion for settlement approval filed in New York federal court Wednesday.

A class-action lawsuit says that the fancy upper West Side restaurant is ripping off its tip workers.

A New York federal judge on Thursday granted conditional certification in a collective action accusing the New York Yankees Partnership and a catering company co-owned by the Yankees of failing to pay the caterer’s waitstaff minimum wage, tips and other compensation.

A New York federal judge granted collective action certification Thursday in a lawsuit accusing Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. of misclassifying workers as overtime-exempt executives, rejecting Chipotle’s argument that the plaintiffs couldn’t identify an illegal policy or plan with classwide impact.