Additionally, Defendant violated the NYLL by failing to provide Plaintiffs with accurate wage statements on each payday or with any wage notice at the time of their respective hires, let alone an accurate one. Defendants paid and treated all their mechanics in the same manner.ĭefendant violated Plaintiff’s rights guaranteed to him by the overtime provisions of the FLSA, the NYLL and the NYCCRR.Defendants paid Plaintiff a flat weekly salary that did not include overtime premiums and that brought his regular hourly rate below the minimum that New York requires for all hours worked.Defendants required Plaintiff to work, and Plaintiff did in fact work, in excess of forty hours virtually each week, yet Defendants failed to compensate Plaintiff at least at the rate of one and one-half times the minimum wage, or one and one-half times his regular rate, whichever was greater, for any hours that he worked in excess of forty in a week.Throughout his employment, Defendants willfully failed to pay Plaintiff the overtime wages lawfully due to him under the FLSA and the NYLL or the minimum wage required under the NYLL.Plaintiff worked for Defendants – – a Manhattan-based vehicle repair station and its owner and day-to-day overseer – – as a mechanic, from in or around July 2014 until March 16, 2020.The claims of the case are reviewed as follows: Codes, Rules, and Regulations (“NYCCRR”), including the failure of Defendants to compensate Plaintiffs for overtime wages. Lara, on behalf of himself, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly-situated, filed a collective action lawsuit in the United States District Court Southern District of New York against BROADWAY S/S INC., and AFTAB HUSSAIN, individually, (“Defendants”), alleging deliberating violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and the New York Labor Law (“NYLL”) and the New York Comp. Judge grants Conditional Certification of Collective Action in the Southern District of New York