{"id":359,"date":"2012-11-16T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2012-11-16T19:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T19:30:56","slug":"yankee-stadium-banquet-servers-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/yankee-stadium-banquet-servers-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankee Stadium Banquet Servers Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fslawfirm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Stamped-Complaint-12-Civ.-8334-TPG.pdf\">Click Here to Read the Lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On November 15, 2012, Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer filed a class and collective action lawsuit against Legends Hospitality, LLC and New York Yankees Partnership (collectively, \u201cYankees\u201d).\u00a0 The lawsuit alleges that Yankees led their customers to believe that the mandatory service charge during private catering events was a gratuity that would be distributed to the Banquet Servers.\u00a0 However, the Yankees retained a portion of this gratuity\/service charge.\u00a0 Moreover, the Yankees failed to pay its Banquet Servers the proper minimum wage rate ($7.25 per hour), the correct overtime pay rate for over 40 hours per week ($10.88 per hour), spread-of-hours pay when they worked over 10 hours per day, and failed to reimburse them for uniform maintenance expenses.\u00a0 We are seeking to represent all Banquet Servers employed by the Yankees since the new stadium opened.\u00a0 Eligible employees should call us to join the case as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click Here to Read the Lawsuit<br \/>\nOn November 15, 2012, Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer filed a class and collective action lawsuit against Legends Hospitality, LLC and New York Yankees Partnership (collectively, \u201cYankees\u201d).\u00a0 The lawsuit alleges that Yankees led their customers to believe that the mandatory service charge during private catering events was a gratuity that would be distributed to the Banquet Servers.\u00a0 However, the Yankees retained a portion of this gratuity\/service charge.\u00a0 Moreover, the Yankees failed to pay its Banquet Servers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,1,22,25,24,27,21,33,28,26,34,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-action","category-employment-law","category-flsa-2","category-gratuities","category-minimum-wage-2","category-ny-labor-law","category-overtime-2","category-service-charge","category-spread-of-hours","category-tips","category-unpaid-wages-2","category-waiter","category-waitress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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