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Jun 19
As 2013 kicks off, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will continue to aggressively target big business under New York’s unique anti-fraud and false claims laws, experts say, with his cases against JPMorgan Chase Bank NA and Sprint Nextel Corp. just two of the bigger cases expected to play out.
Jun 19
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.
Jun 19
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.
Jun 19
The future of proposals to raise New York’s minimum wage, expand natural gas drilling and ramp up casino gambling will be clouded in 2013 by worries about a budget that could take a hit from costs including those associated with Superstorm Sandy.
Jun 19
Jun 19
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.
Jun 19
Stylists to settle sits vs. Scores, Penthouse Club
Jun 19
The owners of the prestigious 1 Oak club in New York violated state and federal labor laws by failing to pay workers minimum wages and confiscating portions of service charges and tips, a lawsuit filed today in New York federal court alleges.
Jun 19
A former Cipriani chef has cooked up a court case claiming his ex-employers cheated him out of overtime.
Jun 19
Tips or no tips, a former waiter is suing a well-known Brooklyn Heights diner for back wages that he claims he wasn’t paid.
Jun 19
A firm that handles food and drinks for elite Yankee Stadium fans is striking out with concession workers who claim they’re being cheated out of the tips automatically added to their bills.
Jun 19
Two former restaurant workers filed suit Friday in a New York federal court, claiming that an upscale Puerto Rican eatery co-owned by New York Mets player Carlos Beltran deprived a proposed class of minimum wages and overtime pay.
Jun 19
A class-action lawsuit says that the fancy upper West Side restaurant is ripping off its tip workers.
Jun 19
An employee of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has filed a lawsuit alleging the company has failed to pay overtime to hundreds of employees.
Jun 19
A lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that the Glazier Group’s renowned Strip House New York violated federal and state labor laws by misappropriating employee tips and withholding minimum wages and overtime compensation, according to Outten & Golden LLP and Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP.
Jun 19
A new lawsuit alleges that AMF Bowling Centers, Inc. violated the New York Labor Law by misappropriating employee tips, according to Outten & Golden LLP and Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP.
Jun 19
Nine former employees of the Peruvian-themed restaurant chain Pio Pio of New York, which operates restaurants in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, accuse the company of failing to pay workers minimum wages and overtime, in violation of state and federal law, a lawsuit filed today in New York federal court alleges.
Jun 19
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.
Jun 19
A lawsuit filed Wednes day against the “five star” Mama Mexico restaurants in New York and New Jersey alleges that the restaurants failed to pay kitchen workers minimum wages and overtime compensation, according to Outten & Golden LLP and Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP.
Jun 19
A former KPMG LLP associate accused the accounting firm on Tuesday in New York federal court of withholding overtime wages for a putative class of entry-level employees in its advisory services business, following a nearly identical suit lodged by audit associates.
Jun 19
An amended lawsuit filed Monday alleges that the “five star” Mama Mexico restaurants in New York and New Jersey violated federal and state labor laws by withholding minimum wages, overtime compensation and misappropriating employee tips, according to Outten & Golden LLP and Fitapelli & Schaffer, LLP.
Jun 19
The jobs-search CEO and raunchy blogger who is getting set to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) was once sued for back pay and commissions by his own workers, who also accused him of threatening to punish them for seeking redress, according to court records obtained by The Huffington Post.
Jun 19
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.
Jun 19
TGI Friday’s is playing a game of legal Whac-A-Mole in an attempt to settle a class-action wage lawsuit by its employees before it goes to trial, Manhattan legal papers allege.
Jun 19
For restaurants, more lawsuits on the menu – improper payments, other infractions make them easy targets; some look to open outside New York.
Jun 19
Makeup artist at Scores, Penthouse Executive Club claims strip joints stiffed him on fees.
Apr 1
A New York federal judge on Tuesday granted conditional certification to a 42,000-worker nationwide class of tipped TGI Friday’s employees in a collective action alleging they had to perform underpaid side work in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Apr 1
A strip-club owner is getting sued for grabbing his dancer’s tips for himself.
Apr 1
A New York City law firm says it has filed a class action lawsuit accusing the Syracuse-based Dinosaur Bar-B-Que chain of failing to pay its tipped workers fair wages.
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