New Collective Action filed in the Southern District of New York
Gina Amador v. CILS, LTD d/b/a Club International Limousine and Dennis Pettrucci Case No: 16-CV-01733
On March 7, 2016 Lead Plaintiff Gina Amador on behalf of herself and those similarly situated filed a class and collective action lawsuit in United States District Court – Southern District of New York vs. Club International Limousine and Dennis Pettrucci. Ms. Amador worked for Defendants, a limousine company that provides transportation to its clients throughout New York, New Jersey & Connecticut. Plaintiff worked for Defendants as a driver with duties that required her to travel to customer locations throughout New York, New Jersey & Connecticut from May 2011 to March 2015. Ms. Amador alleges that she worked beyond forty hours in a workweek throughout her employment. However, Defendants failed to pay Ms. Amador for any hours worked after forty at any rate of pay or the proper overtime compensation at the statutorily-required overtime rate of pay for any hour that she worked per week over forty hours as the New York Labor Law and the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act require. In addition, Defendants failed to furnish Ms. Amador with accurate wage statements on each payday, as required by the New York Labor Law.
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