Firm Secures Judgment in the amount of $150,000.00 – Wage & Hour Violations

August 2025

Martinez v. JLM Decorating, Inc., and JLM Decorating NYC Inc., and Cosmopolitan Interior NY Corporation, and Moshe Gold, individually, and Josafath Arias, individually et al. Docket No: 20-cv-02969

Firm represented a non-managerial painter against his former employers JLM Decorating, Inc., and JLM Decorating NYC Inc., and Cosmopolitan Interior NY Corporation, and Moshe Gold, individually, and Josafath Arias, individually for unpaid overtime wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law.  Generally, Defendants routinely required Plaintiff to work beyond forty hours per week, paid Plaintiff on an hourly basis for only forty hours of week per week, and thus failed to compensate Plaintiff at any rate of pay, let alone at the statutorily required overtime rate of time and one-half his regular rate of pay for any hours that Plaintiff worked per week in excess of forty. Furthermore, also in violation of the NYLL, Defendants failed to provide Plaintiff with an accurate wage statement on each payday. Nor did Defendants provide Plaintiff with any wage notice at the time of his hire, let alone an accurate one. A notice of acceptance of a Rule 68 Offer of Judgment having been filed having offered to allow entry of judgment to be taken against Defendant and in favor of Plaintiffs, the case concluded in a judgment in the amount of $150,000.00.  Andrew C. Weiss handled the matter on behalf of the firm.

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