By Alexis Shanes, Law360 (January 12, 2021 7:12 PM EST) –A trio of church custodians leveled a proposed class and collective action against the Archdiocese of New York, accusing a Harlem parish of ousting all its Hispanic workers and trying to get some of them kicked out of their home. […]
By Peter Hayes, Bloomberg Law (January 12, 2021 14:59 PM) — The Archdiocese of New York was hit with a proposed civil rights class action alleging it racially discriminated by firing all Hispanic employees of the Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family, according to filings in a Manhattan […]
By Beth Fertig, WNYC (September 23, 2019) — An undocumented worker who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while giving a deposition against his former employer in upstate New York has been released from detention, and has filed new complaints over the government arrest. The case has alarmed immigrant and […]
By Adam Lidgett, Law360 (September 19, 2019) — The operators of a trio of Manhattan Thai restaurants have agreed to pay $3.68 million to settle a suit claiming they flouted the Fair Labor Standards Act and New York state law by not properly paying a group of workers overtime and […]
By Joyce Hanson, Law360 (April 1, 2019) — A former worker at two jointly owned Chinese restaurants has urged a New York federal court to quickly grant conditional class certification in his overtime suit, saying he has located a sufficient number of individuals to opt in to the collective action. […]
By Joyce Hanson, Law360 (March 25, 2019) —A New York federal judge has refused to let a restaurant owner exit a class action brought by employees from several now-closed Thai eateries in Manhattan, ruling the class has sufficiently shown he is responsible for alleged minimum wage and overtime violations. A […]
By Shanya Posses, Law360 (August 29, 2018, 7:39 PM EDT) — A New York federal magistrate judge granted conditional certification of a collective class of employees who say they weren’t paid minimum wage or proper overtime at several now-closed Thai restaurants in Manhattan, holding Wednesday that the workers leading the […]
By Nik DeCosta-Klipa, Boston.com (June 28, 2017) Dunkin’ Donuts’ steak-and-egg breakfast sandwiches allegedly lack one main ingredient: Steak. That’s the claim in a federal lawsuit filed in New York this week on behalf of Queens resident Chen Chulen, who wants the Canton-based chain to pay up for allegedly deceiving its […]
By Jillian Kramer, Food & Wine, June 27, 2017 Apparently when you say “steak,” people expect a steak. When you order a steak and egg sandwich, it’s only reasonable to assume the meat slapped between those two slices of bagel is, well, steak. But Dunkin’ Donuts is now under fire […]
By Clint Rainey, Grub Street (June 27, 2017 10:54am) All meat-loving Americans love a good steak-and-eggs breakfast, so of course Dunkin’ Donuts has a bagel sandwich — the Angus Steak & Egg — that tries to mine the combo’s immense popularity. Dishonor such a seminal dish, though, and somebody will come […]
