Two of the plaintiffs, Desmond Dale and Salman Afridi, of Ocean City and Salisbury respectively, are seeking to represent a class of themselves and any other similarly situated non-exempt, back-of-the-house employees of the restaurant. The defense has filed a couple of motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim against these two plaintiffs in particular, according to court records, and hasn’t responded to any of the other allegations in publicly available documents.
In mid-October another law firm, Gordon, Wolf and Carney located in Towson, Md., specializing in class action lawsuits, joined the plaintiff’s case. Howard Hoffman, the attorney who made the initial filing, specializes in employment law and remains on the case.
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5 comments:
Dead Fred will loose this case. He would have been better to pay these 2 off. Now he will spend 50-75k to defend himself and he will still loose this one. What he did was wrong and now it's time to pay up! Restaurants are the only industry that get workers wages covered by the generosity of others.
Greedy gold diggers looking for something for nothing. Those employees knew what the pay scale was when they took the jobs. Now they want to dictate to the restaurant what the pay should be.
The only winners will be the lawyers.
If this is true then he has nothing to worry about it.
Restaurants can't expect people to work 60-70 hours per week and not pay them time and a half. If I had a great employee that worked that much during the craziness of OC I would pay him for his time....period.
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