11 results for 'cat:"Employment" AND cat:"Damages" AND cat:"Labor"'.
J. Seybert grants a construction worker’s motion for reconsideration, but again finds he lacks standing to bring claims for wage statement and notice violations against his employer under the Wage Theft Prevention Act. The court subsequently enters default judgment in his favor on his unpaid regular and overtime wages claims and awards him $17,217 in unpaid wages, plus that amount in liquidated damages, as well as pre- and post-judgment interest.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Seybert, Filed On: April 16, 2024, Case #: 2:21cv4959, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: employment, damages, labor
J. Komitee issues his findings of fact following a bench trial and rules in favor of four car wash attendants on their unpaid-wages and retaliation claims against a Brooklyn-based car wash. The court awards each litigant $3,000 in damages for their state labor law retaliation claims, prejudgment interest, plus individualized awards for unpaid wages and misappropriated gratuities.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Komitee, Filed On: March 20, 2024, Case #: 1:13cv6085, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: employment, damages, labor
J. Marbley grants, in part, the employer's motion for judgment on the pleadings, ruling the employee's claim for liquidated damages under the Fair Labor Standards Act is barred because the underlying liability regarding overtime pay is disputed by the employer.
Court: USDC Southern District of Ohio, Judge: Marbley, Filed On: February 20, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv1874, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: damages, employment Retaliation, labor
J. Robinson grants the U.S. Department of Labor's motion to pursue Fair Labor Standards Act violation claims against a Mexican style chain of restaurants. The U.S. Department of Labor sufficiently showed in court that the two restaurants failed to properly compensate employees for minimum wages, overtime, and tipping.
Court: USDC Kansas, Judge: Robinson, Filed On: February 2, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv2115, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: employment, damages, labor
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J. Miller finds that the trial court properly denied the employee's claim for penalty wages in a suit filed after her termination at a car dealership. Since the employer's dispute over the amount of wages owed to the employee was not done in bad faith, it was not liable for penalty wages in addition to the past due wages, attorney fees and costs that were awarded. Affirmed.
Court: Louisiana Court Of Appeal, Judge: Miller, Filed On: January 26, 2024, Case #: 2023CA0676, Categories: employment, damages, labor
J. Bagley orders the operators of a now-defunct Queens-based Greek-style restaurant to pay two employees a total of $191,274 in unpaid regular, overtime and spread of hours wages plus liquidated damages after the court found them jointly and severally liable for state and federal labor law violations following a bench trial. The judge found the employers to be less than truthful in their testimonies when it came to details regarding the employees’ compensation and hours worked.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Bagley, Filed On: November 28, 2023, Case #: 2:15cv5081, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: employment, damages, labor
J. Matsumoto enters default judgment against the owner of a Brooklyn-based restaurant on state and federal labor law claims and awards a server and bartender a total of $46,970 in damages after finding it liable for their unpaid minimum, overtime and spread-hours wages.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Matsumoto, Filed On: November 20, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv7064, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: employment, damages, labor
J. Katsumoto enters default judgment against a construction company, finding it liable on claims for unpaid minimum, overtime, spread of hours and untimely wages payment under state and federal labor laws. The court awards the two manual laborers a total of $120,322 in damages, plus pre- and post-judgment interest, attorney fees and costs.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Katsumoto, Filed On: November 17, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv6050, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: employment, damages, labor
J. Harris finds the lower court properly awarded damages to the employees. The food distributor could not prove that the employees, labeled as sales representatives despite the majority of their job being inventory and promotions, were covered by the outside sales exemption and therefore were not owed overtime wages. Affirmed.
Court: 4th Circuit, Judge: Harris , Filed On: July 27, 2023, Case #: 21-2897, Categories: employment, damages, labor