A Brooklyn delivery worker says the German grocery delivery company Gorillas failed to properly compensate its employees and is seeking to recoup unpaid wages for himself and hundreds of his colleagues, according to a class action complaint filed in Kings County federal court on Tuesday and first reported by Courthouse News.
Francis Coleman, who has worked for the multinational quick-commerce business since last fall, claims in the complaint the company sent its employees home without pay on slow days and failed to provide uniform maintenance pay required by state law.
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“In New York, if you are required to wear a uniform and you’re paid minimum wage for one of these delivery driver apps, then the app has to pay uniform maintenance pay,” said Coleman’s lawyer Mohammed Gangat. “They didn’t do it for Francis, and they didn’t do it for the rest of their employees.”
There is an exception to the law, Gangat said — employees who make over minimum wage are not entitled to uniform maintenance pay, so any Gorillas delivery workers making more than minimum wage were not eligible. Still, he said, hundreds of people were impacted.
“This is just for daily maintenance,” Gangat explained. “New York has a statute that if you owe uniform pay, this is the amount you have to pay to them each week. It’s not a significant amount, Gorillas could have easily done it.”
He thinks Coleman was entitled to just about $18 per week for uniform maintenance.
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