Fruit Stocker Claims DH Ridgewood Farm Violated Labor Laws

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DH Ridgewood Farm, Inc. and two individual owners are facing a former employee’s claims that the parties denied him proper wages and other entitlements he should have been afforded under state and federal labor laws. The plaintiff says he worked at the defendants’ fruit and vegetable market as a fruit stocker between July 2016 and January 2018. According to the complaint, he typically worked 72 hours per week but did not receive time-and-a-half premium wages for the hours above 40. On top of that, the suit alleges, the plaintiff was paid less than minimum wage and was not provided with spread-of-hours pay when he worked more than 10 hours at a time.

Moreover, the complaint claims the defendants required that employees clock in at the beginning of each shift but never clock out. As a result, the suit alleges, the workers’ wage statements were inaccurate and didn’t account for all their hours worked.