On August 22, 2014, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the corporate entities doing business as the Caf\u00e9 Espa\u00f1ol restaurants located at 78 Carmine Street and 172 Bleecker Street in New York (collectively, \u201cCaf\u00e9 Espa\u00f1ol\u201d).\u00a0 The lawsuit alleges that despite working over 40 hours per week, cooks, food preparers, dishwashers, and kitchen helpers are only paid a fixed weekly salary and not time and one half their regular hourly wage rate as required under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law.\u00a0 The lawsuit is seeking unpaid overtime pay, spread-of-hours pay, and statutory penalties under the New York Labor Law.<\/p>\n
We are seeking to represent all cooks, food preparers, dishwashers, and kitchen helpers employed at Caf\u00e9 Espa\u00f1ol from August 2008 to present.\u00a0 Eligible employees should call us to join the case.\u00a0 For additional information, please call the employment lawyers at Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP, (212) 300-0375.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On August 22, 2014, Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the corporate entities doing business as the Caf\u00e9 Espa\u00f1ol restaurants located at 78 Carmine Street and 172 Bleecker Street in New York (collectively, \u201cCaf\u00e9 Espa\u00f1ol\u201d).\u00a0 The lawsuit alleges that despite working over 40 hours per week, cooks, food preparers, dishwashers, and kitchen helpers are only paid a fixed weekly salary and not time …<\/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":[32,31,23,1,22,43,25,24,27,21,28,34,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bartender","category-busboy","category-class-action","category-employment-law","category-flsa-2","category-food","category-gratuities","category-minimum-wage-2","category-ny-labor-law","category-overtime-2","category-spread-of-hours","category-unpaid-wages-2","category-waiter","category-waitress"],"yoast_head":"\n