Outten & Golden serves as co-lead plaintiffs' counsel with the National Employment Law Project (NELP) in a class action lawsuit against Gristedes, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P), Duane Reade, and two labor agents alleging that a class of deliverymen have worked six or seven days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day, delivering groceries for sub-minimum wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the New York State Labor Law. The Attorney General of the State of New York has also filed a lawsuit against A&P and is investigating these practices against the other defendants.
A class-wide settlement has been reached with four defendants in the total amount of $8.1 million plus additional job-related benefits.
Please email Justin M. Swartz or call (212) 245-1000 for more information.
(*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.)