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Carlson Restaurants Inc.<\/em>, Judge Analisa Torres of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Defendants motion to transfer the action to the Northern District of Texas and to partially dismiss Plaintiffs\u2019 FLSA minimum wage claim.\u00a0 Plaintiffs originally commenced this action on April 17, 2014, on behalf of themselves and all similarly situated current and former tipped workers \u2013 including servers, bussers, runners, bartenders, barbacks, and hosts \u2013 employed at T.G.I. Friday\u2019s restaurants nationwide.\u00a0 The complaint alleged that Defendants failed to pay their employees at an overtime rate of time and one half for all over worked over 40 per workweek and also unlawfully paid employees less than the full statutory minimum wage while failing to properly avail themselves of the federal \u201ctip credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In regards to Defendants\u2019 motion to transfer, the court was required to engage in a two-step inquiry.\u00a0 First they had to assess whether the action could have originally been brought in the transferee court.\u00a0 Second, they had to evaluate several factors relating to the convenience of transfer and interest of justice.\u00a0 Specifically, these factors include: (1) the plaintiff\u2019s choice of forum, (2) the convenience of witnesses, (3) the location of relevant documents and relative ease of access to sources of proof, (4) the convenience of parties, (5) the locus of operative facts, (6) the availability of process to compel the attendance of unwilling witnesses, and (7) the relative means of the parties.\u00a0 The court will also consider the \u201cforum\u2019s familiarity with the governing law\u201d and \u201ctrial efficiency and the interests of justice, based on the totality of circumstances.\u201d\u00a0 The court first determined that the Plaintiffs\u2019 choice of forum created no inference of forum shopping since his claim arose from his employment in that District.\u00a0 Further, the majority of the named Plaintiffs reside in the very same District.\u00a0 While Defendants contested that Plaintiffs\u2019 choice of forum should not be afforded deference because their claims were asserted on an aggregate basis, the Court instead found that the opt-in structure of FLSA collective actions strongly suggested that Congress intended to give Plaintiffs control over the bringing of a collective action.\u00a0 Accordingly, the Court held that Plaintiffs\u2019 choice of forum was entitled to deference.\u00a0 The court found that the convenience of the witnesses was a neutral factor in this case since even though witnesses to Defendants\u2019 corporate policies weighs in favor of transfer, Defendants had failed to offer evidence demonstrating that witness\u2019s familiar with these practices would actually be inconvenienced if the action remained in the Southern District of New York.\u00a0 Further, testimony about the on-site application of Defendants\u2019 policies and of employees\u2019 duties favored a New York venue.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that the location of relevant documents and ease of access to sources of proof was a neutral factor, due to the ability to easily mail or fax documents.\u00a0 The convenience of the parties was similarly neutral, because a venue transfer would merely serve to shift the inconvenience to the other party.\u00a0 The locus of operative facts in employment cases is typically found at the locations where employees worked.\u00a0 Considering 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against transfer since, even though Defendants have far greater financial resources than Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs did not adduce evidence showing that the costs associated with pursuing this action would significantly increase if transfer was granted.\u00a0 In regards to familiarity with governing law, the court sided with Plaintiff in finding that the Southern District of New York was more familiar with applying New York Labor Law than the Northern District of Texas.\u00a0 In light of all the previously addressed factors, the court held accordingly that transfer would neither promote trial efficiency nor serve the interests of justice.<\/p>\n<p>The court next addressed Defendants motion to dismiss Plaintiffs\u2019 minimum wage claim on the grounds that Plaintiffs cannot, as a matter of law, state a FLSA minimum wage claim based on an alleged violation of the twenty percent side work rule.\u00a0 To elaborate, this rule provides that Tipped Workers who spend more than 20% of their time performing side work must be paid at the full minimum wage for that time.\u00a0 The court looked at previous decisions in other circuits who have ruled on this issue, such as the Eighth Circuit, and the fact that the Southern District of New York has consistently endorsed this rule, in rejecting Defendants\u2019 argument.\u00a0 Defendants additionally argued that Plaintiffs failed to state a claim because they did not identify the exact percentage of time Plaintiffs spent doing side work, how often they performed these duties, during what time periods they performed these duties, and which particular duties they had to perform.\u00a0 However, the court held that Plaintiffs did not need to provide the degree of specificity that Defendants demanded.\u00a0 Plaintiffs provided enough information when they asserted what general tasks employees had to perform, how many hours they spent each shift performing these tasks, and at what point in the shift they performed them.\u00a0 Accordingly, Defendants\u2019 motion to partially dismiss Plaintiffs\u2019 FLSA minimum wage claim was dismissed by the Court.<\/p>\n<p>The NYC employment lawyers at Fitapelli &amp; Schaffer are looking to represent all servers, bussers, runners, bartenders, barbacks, hosts, and other current and former tipped workers who are or have been employed by T.G.I. Friday\u2019s restaurants nationwide.\u00a0 Please contact us at (212) 300-0375 to schedule a free consultation to further discuss if you are qualified to opt-in.\u00a0 For more information, please visit our website at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.fslawfirm.com.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 27, 2015, in the case of Flood v. 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