The owners of a commercial dry cleaners in Astoria have been busted for swindling their workers out of $90,000 in unpaid wages.
Fat-Lun Kong and Cheng Teh Tang, who co-own Enterprise Cleaner on 42nd Street in Ditmars, failed to pay their employees minimum wage, proper overtime and adequate paid sick leave over a six-year period, the New York Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday.
Kong and Tang, authorities said, repeatedly violated state labor laws by underpaying more than a dozen former workers what they were legally entitled to between 2014 and 2020.
As part of a settlement announced Tuesday, Enterprise, Kong, and Tang agreed to pay the $90,000 in stolen wages to the former employees.
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) launched an investigation into the business in Jan. 2020 and found that workers at the 19-64 42nd St. location were not paid the minimum wage rate after it increased to $15 per hour on Dec. 31, 2018. Investigators found the company only began paying workers the $15 rate about a year after the law when into effect.
The company, according to the OAG, also did not have a paid sick leave policy and did not provide employees with adequate paid sick leave. The business also required workers to find a replacement before they could call in sick, which authorities say interfered with the employees’ right to sick leave.
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