Firm Secures Judgment in the amount of $345,000.00 – Wage & Hour Violations – Firm represented a collective group of former employees against Ferrandino & Son, Inc. individually, for unpaid overtime wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law (“NYLL”). Generally, the Plaintiffs contended that the Company subjected them to work more than forty hours in a workweek, but paid Plaintiffs a flat weekly salary, which as reflected on their paystubs, was intended to cover only Plaintiff’s first forty hours of work in a week. Additionally, Defendant failed to pay Plaintiff at any rate of pay, let alone at the statutorily-required overtime rate of one and one half times their regular rate, for any hours that Plaintiffs worked in a week over forty. Furthermore, Defendants violated the NYLL by failing to provide Plaintiff with an accurate wage statement on each payday. The case concluded in a judgment in the amount of $345,000.00 Michael J. Borrelli handled the matter on behalf of the firm.
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