Le v. Triza Electrical Corp., and Chris Triantafillou, individually and Abdessamad Elhaddad, individually,Civil Case No.: 19-cv-05134

New Action filed in the Eastern District of New York

Le v. Triza Electrical Corp., and Chris Triantafillou, individually and Abdessamad Elhaddad, individually,
Civil Case No.: 19-cv-05134

On September 9, 2019, Plaintiff Le filed a lawsuit in the United States Eastern District Court of New York against TRIZA ELECTRICAL CORP., and CHRIS TRIANTAFILLOU, individually, and ABDESSAMAD ELHADDAD, individually, (collectively as “Defendants”), alleging as follows:

Plaintiff, who is Vietnamese, worked for Defendants – – a Queens-based electrical contracting company, its Chief Executive Officer and day-to-day overseer, and the company’s foreman who was Plaintiff’s direct supervisor – – as an electrician from approximately January 2016 until in or around February 1, 2018.  As is relevant herein, from January 1, 2017 until the end of his employment in or around February 1, 2018 (“the Relevant Time Period”), Defendants failed to pay Plaintiff the wages lawfully due to him under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the New York Labor Law (“NYLL”), and the N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. (“NYCRR”).  Specifically, during the Relevant Time Period, Defendants required Plaintiff to work, and Plaintiff did in fact work, in excess of forty hours each week or virtually every week, yet these Defendants failed to compensate Plaintiff at the rate of one and one-half times his regular rate of pay for all hours that Plaintiff worked in excess of forty in a week.  Instead, Defendants paid Plaintiff a flat weekly wage that operated to cover only the first forty hours that he worked in a week, and thus Defendants failed to compensate Plaintiff at any rate of pay, let alone at the statutorily-required overtime rate of one and one-half times his regular rate of pay for any hours that Plaintiff worked in excess of forty in a week, in violation of the FLSA, the NYLL, and the NYCRR.

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