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New York area car wash workers get more than $91,000 each in unpaid wages
Source: Reuters
World | Tue Jun 21, 2016 4:50pm EDT
New York area car wash workers get more than $91,000 each in unpaid wages
NEW YORK | BY GINA CHERELUS
Eighteen immigrant car wash employees in New York and New Jersey received more than $91,000 each as part of a federal court settlement for unpaid wages, making it the biggest per-worker recovery in the car wash industry, lawyers said on Tuesday.
The agreement awarded the final part of a $1.65 million settlement to 18 workers who were earning less than $20,000 a year at four car washes owned by J.V. Car Wash Ltd., said one of the lawyers who brought the suit in 2011.
Steven Arenson of the employment litigation firm Arenson Dittmar & Karban said each worker on average will receive over $91,000, with the highest being close to $200,000 for two people who were employed the longest. With $750,000 already paid last year, the remaining $900,000 was disbursed on Tuesday.
Lawyers for the defendant declined to comment.
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New York area car wash workers get more than $91,000 each in unpaid wages
NEW YORK | BY GINA CHERELUS
Eighteen immigrant car wash employees in New York and New Jersey received more than $91,000 each as part of a federal court settlement for unpaid wages, making it the biggest per-worker recovery in the car wash industry, lawyers said on Tuesday.
The agreement awarded the final part of a $1.65 million settlement to 18 workers who were earning less than $20,000 a year at four car washes owned by J.V. Car Wash Ltd., said one of the lawyers who brought the suit in 2011.
Steven Arenson of the employment litigation firm Arenson Dittmar & Karban said each worker on average will receive over $91,000, with the highest being close to $200,000 for two people who were employed the longest. With $750,000 already paid last year, the remaining $900,000 was disbursed on Tuesday.
Lawyers for the defendant declined to comment.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-carwash-idUSKCN0Z72TW
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