NY Car Wash Accused of Various Labor Law Violations

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Miracle Mile Auto Wash, LLC (which does business as Manhasset Hand Wash & Detail Center) and an individual owner have been named as defendants in a proposed collective action filed by a former employee. The plaintiff alleges that she worked more than 60 hours per week at the defendants’ car wash without receiving proper minimum, overtime, or spread-of-hours wages. She claims she was never informed that the defendants would be taking a tip credit to reduce her wages and argues that she was often forced to work through her lunch breaks, which further lowered her pay. Additionally, her employers “willfully failed and refused” to contribute to required employee benefits such as Social Security, unemployment compensation, and Medicare, according to the suit.

Besides the alleged compensation violations, the suit claims that the defendants also failed to provide the plaintiff with accurate records of the hours she worked and her pay rate, as required under state law.