A former employee has filed a proposed class action against Societe Air France over alleged New York Labor Law (NYLL) violations.
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The 16-page case claims the international airline has unlawfully paid airport operations associates, passenger service agents, cargo associates, ramp service agents, mechanics and engineers in New York bi-weekly instead of weekly. The lawsuit further alleges that Air France has failed to provide employees with uniform maintenance compensation or one additional hour’s pay at the minimum wage for days they worked shifts lasting longer than 10 hours.
According to the suit, the NYLL requires an employer to pay on a weekly basis manual workers who perform physical labor at least 25 percent of the time. The plaintiff, a former Air France passenger service agent at JFK International Airport, says she spent over a quarter of her shifts performing physical tasks like lifting, weighing and transferring luggage but consistently received her paycheck every two weeks.
“Plaintiff and other ‘manual workers’ … need to be paid weekly to keep up with day to day [sic] expenses such as housing and transportation costs, groceries, utilities, and other regular bills, and in order to obtain the full value of their earned wages as due,” the filing states, adding that New York’s high cost of living places another financial burden on Air France manual...
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