In a rare decision interpreting the New York State Department of Labor’s Wage Order applicable to the Building Services Industry, New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe recently revisited and confirmed her prior ruling that employees in a residential building who meet the Wage Order’s definition of “janitor” are not entitled to overtime pay
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New York State Court Issues Injunction Preventing Eviction of Tenant-Employee With Pending Asserted Wage and Hour Claims
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in Litigation
Injunctive relief is infrequently sought in wage-and-hour litigation, which typically focuses on whether an employer properly paid wages for time periods which already transpired, as well as for any period after the filing of an action where the challenged practice means unchanged. However, injunctive relief can be available in FLSA cases. In a prime example…