I want to post these stories - when I work for retail and other jobs I was never short changed,,,,,,,,,,,- NOW read the two stories follow the names a kinda guess who is filling those jobs and not joe sam paul or sara or jane or mark or matt, guess,,,,,,,,, Worker Justice Center files lawsuit on behalf of underpaid workers KINGSTON – The Worker Justice Center of New York, headquartered in Kingston, filed a lawsuit Monday in US District Court in Albany against a Saugerties company alleging it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and New York law by underpaying employees. The legal action is against Total Tennis Saugerties N.Y. LLC and its owner Edward Fondiller, claiming they failed to pay minimum wage and overtime wages to at least two of their employees. The company is a tennis and paddle training and practice facility in Saugerties. According to the complaint, filed by plaintiffs Hugo Poblete and Ofelia Balderas, manual workers including housekeepers and kitchen staff, they were paid below the minimum wage and were not paid overtime for hours worked over 40 in a work week. Worker Justice Center staff attorney Andrea Callan said when the case evolves, additional plaintiffs may come forward. “We believe that there could be more individuals that were similarly affected by the same payment scheme, so we just don’t have any way to tell until further down to litigation once the collective class opens up in this litigation,” Callan said. “Under the Fair Labor Standards Act this includes a provision that allows other individuals who were paid under the same common plan or scheme to join that lawsuit as a collective action to recover their damages.” The plaintiffs were paid at regular hourly and overtime rates that ranged from $3.22 to $7.46 per hour depending on the season and the number of hours worked in a given work week. The current minimum wage in New York is $8 per hour. PART TWO- Citations affirmed against Sullivan chicken processing plant NEW YORK – Citations issued to MB Consultants Ltd., doing business as Murray’s Chickens in South Fallsburg, have been upheld by an administrative law judge from the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. The affirmation upholds an earlier decision by the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The company must now pay the $67,000 penalties lodged against it. OSHA Regional Director Robert Kulick said the decision is critical o all employers. “Not informing workers of the chemicals they work with or are exposed to, not implementing proper logout-tag out procedures, really not complying with any of OSHA’s standards to protect worker safety and health, is unacceptable and we are going to enforce it to the highest extent of the law,” he said. “Employers have a duty to provide a workplace free from hazards and we expect them to fulfill that responsibility,” he said. OSHA cited the plant in May 2012 for a number of safety and health hazards, including failure to provide employees with information and training about the hazards of products that contain peracetic acid and bleach, as required by OSHA’s hazard communication standard. The company also failed to train production workers whose operations include servicing and maintenance of machines that could unexpectedly start up. MB Consultants contested its citations, a hearing was held in May of last year and an administrative law judge upheld the citations in a ruling last month.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:25:06 +0000
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