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Zara Retailer Lawsuit for Owed Wages <\/strong>Successfully Moves Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The class and collective action filed by Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP against the fashion retailer, Zara,continues to successfully move forward after the Court denied Defendant\u2019s motion to dismiss. The Court also pointed out that the allegations in the lawsuit, such as untimely payment claims, are tangible, monetary harms that \u201creadily qualify as concrete injuries\u2026\u201d which Defendants opposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawsuit, which was filed in 2020, aims to recover overtime pay and other damages for alleged violations by the retailer under New York Labor Law (\u201cNYLL\u201d) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (\u201cFLSA\u201d). Employees that may be affected by this lawsuit include hourly positions that are typically eligible for overtime pay such as cashiers, sales associates and stock associates who currently work or have worked for Zara. Hourly employees are paid an hourly rate plus commissions, accordingly their overtime rate should have included their commissions earned as required by the FLSA and NYLL. However, the retailer allegedly failed to include their commissions when calculating their overtime when these hourly employees worked over 40 hours per week. The lawsuit also claims that the company violated the NYLL by paying its New York hourly workers bi-weekly basis when NY law requires that all manual laborers, such as retail employees, be paid their wages no later than seven days after the last day of the week in which their wages were earned. The chain store also required its hourly workers in New York to work shifts that lasted longer than 10 hours. If an hourly worker in New York completes a shift of over 10 hours, they must be given \u201cspread of hours\u201d pay, which allows the employee to receive an extra hour of pay at the applicable minimum wage rate. This requirement, however, was not met by the retailer as alleged in the compliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court\u2019s\u00a0recent\u00a0decision\u00a0to dismiss Defendant\u2019s motion\u00a0is\u00a0a big win for this case.\u00a0The allegations in this lawsuit are not uncommon in the retail industry\u00a0and other hourly workers\u00a0in\u00a0New York City.\u00a0If any of these\u00a0claims\u00a0sound like something you\u2019ve experienced in the workplace, you may be owed wages. Give\u00a0our employment law firm, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP<\/a>\u00a0a call for\u00a0a free and confidential consultation at (212)300-0375. You can also view the court\u2019s decision here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nZara Retailer Lawsuit for Owed Wages Successfully Moves Forward<\/p>\n

The class and collective action filed by Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP against the fashion retailer, Zara,continues to successfully move forward after the Court denied Defendant\u2019s motion to dismiss. The Court also pointed out that the allegations in the lawsuit, such as untimely payment claims, are tangible, monetary harms that \u201creadily qualify as concrete injuries\u2026\u201d which Defendants opposed.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, which was filed in 2020, aims to recover overtime pay and other damages for alleged violations by the retailer under New York Labor Law (\u201cNYLL\u201d) and the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law"],"yoast_head":"\nZara Retailer Lawsuit for Owed Wages Moves Forward<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn more about the Zara retailer wage lawsuit and how it is successfully moving forward after a judge denies defendant\u2019s motion.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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