Ramirez et al. v. 1701 Pizza LTD., et al. Docket No: 21-cv-00792

Firm Secures Judgment in the amount of $135,000.00 – Wage & Hour Violations – Firm represented a collective group of former employees against 1701 Pizza LTD d/b/a Luigi’s Pizza, and Salvatore Romano, individually, and Luigi Romano, individually, a New York corporation that operates a Manhattan Pizzeria restaurant and its two owners and day-to-day overseers, for unpaid overtime wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and New York Labor law.  Generally, the Plaintiffs contended that the Company subjected them to working forty hours a week while only paying them a flat weekly salary.  Additionally, Defendants paid Plaintiffs on an hourly basis for their hours worked up to forty, and at Defendants’ whim, paid Plaintiffs at their statutorily-required overtime rates for some, but not all, of the hours that they worked in excess of forty in a week, and nothing, let alone at their statutorily-required overtime rates, for the additional hours that Plaintiffs worked in excess of forty in a week.  Furthermore, the Defendants did not compensate Plaintiffs with an additional one hour’s pay at the minimum wage rate, in violation of the spread of hours provisions of the New York Labor law and the N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Making matters worse, Defendants failed to provide Plaintiffs with accurate wage statements on each payday as the NYLL requires. After engaging in mediation, the Firm negotiated a settlement of $135,000.00.  Michael J. Borrelli and Lauren R. Reznick handled the matter on behalf of the firm.