NYC Nail Salon, Owners Tacked with Unpaid Wage Lawsuit

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Two New York City nail salon operating companies and their owners are the defendants in a proposed collective action alleging current and former manicurists and pedicurists were not paid proper wages under federal and state labor laws. The plaintiff claims defendants Kim’s Nails at York Avenue, Inc. and Vera Nail & Salon, Inc., which operate as Kim’s Nail Salon, took a tip credit on employees’ wages yet required the individuals to spend several hours each day—more than 20 percent of each work day—performing non-tipped duties unrelated to tipped nail work. The case claims this was done to disguise employees’ duties for payroll and tax purposes.

Further, the plaintiff also alleges she and similarly situated employees regularly worked in excess of 40 hours per week for the defendants without being paid proper minimum and time-and-a-half overtime wages or spread-of-hours compensation.