Former Employees Accuse Land Appliance Services of Illegal Wage Deductions

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Land Appliance Services, Inc. and two individuals with control of the company are on the receiving end of a lawsuit filed by two former drivers/technicians who say their wages were subject to unlawful deductions that caused their pay rates to fall below the minimum wage.

Filed in New York, the case says the plaintiffs regularly worked around 50 to 60 hours each week making deliveries, installing appliances and removing old appliances from customers’ homes. Although the men received an hourly rate of $10.15, the case argues their effective rates of pay often fell below the minimum wage threshold due to improper deductions made for parking tickets and damage to products. In addition, the suit says the workers were docked one hour of pay each day for meal breaks despite not being permitted to take longer than 15 minutes to eat. The men claim these deductions sometimes amounted to more than $100 a week.

Lastly, the suit adds that the defendants allegedly failed to pay the plaintiffs time-and-a-half wages for overtime work and spread-of-hours wages for shifts lasting at least 10 hours.