On July 29, 2015, Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, together with Make the Road New York, filed a wage and hour lawsuit on behalf of nine carwash laborers against a Queens, New York carwash that does business as A.J.A. Car Wash. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and is captioned Yax v. Obhan, 15-cv-4425 (MKB) (VMS). The complaint alleges numerous violations of federal and New York law, including that the carwash failed to pay its carwash laborers the legally-required minimum or overtime wages.
The complaint can be found here. A press release related to the case can be found here.
The plaintiffs are represented by Evan Hudson-Plush, Rebecca Hayes, and Hiram Arnaud of Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP and Elizabeth Joynes of Make the Road New York.
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