NEW YORK – A federal investigation has recovered $113,613 in back wages and liquidated damages for 71 employees of a New York City hotel management company that denied them their full-earned wages, including overtime, by misclassifying many of the affected workers as independent contractors.
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division determined that Greenparc Hospitality NY LLC – a provider of hospitality staff to about 20 hotels in Manhattan and at John F. Kennedy International Airport – violated the federal law when it misclassified 69 of the affected employees. By doing so, the Manhattan-based employer paid the workers – bell staff, housekeepers, and room attendants – straight pay for all hours worked even those above 40 in a workweek.
Greenparc also did not include incentive pay such as shift pay for overnight work, quarterly bonuses, and performance bonuses when calculating the amount of overtime due to 28 of the 71 employees. The violations led the division to recover $56,806 in back wages owed and assess an equal amount in liquidated damages.
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