Notoriety Group LLC and three individual owners face a proposed collective action that alleges the event management company has failed to pay certain workers in accordance with state and federal law.
The 18-page case alleges the defendants, whose company has managed the VIP SkyDeck tables at New York’s Electric Zoo Festival since 2015, have violated both the Fair Labor Standards Act and New York Labor Law by failing to pay workers at either the proper minimum wage rate or the tip-credit rate plus the full amount of their tips. Instead, the workers were paid by the defendants only in tips, some of which were wrongfully withheld by Notoriety Group, the suit alleges.
The plaintiff, a Queens, New York resident, worked for Notoriety Group as a server at the Electric Zoo music festival in 2019 and 2021 without being paid any minimum wages or spread-of-hours premiums, the lawsuit alleges. According to the suit, the plaintiff worked roughly 12 hours per day for three days in 2019 and 12 hours per day for two days in 2021.
Instead of being paid the minimum hourly wage and proper spread-of-hours premiums for working more than 10 hours in one shift, the plaintiff and similarly situated workers were paid only in tips and required to participate in an invalid tip-sharing scheme whereby some of their tips were withheld, the lawsuit alleges. Per the case, the defendants withheld all of the plaintiff’s cash tips for her work at the 2021 Electric Zoo festival and for a private event in...
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