Case: Wage & Hour/Independent Contractor (E.D.N.Y.)

A New York federal court partly denied summary judgment on an autobody repairman’s Fair Labor Standards Act claims against ZA & D Service Station, Inc. and its owners, finding genuine issues of fact regarding his employment status and hours worked, where the company argued he was an independent contractor, while he claimed he worked 57 hours per week from 2018 to 2022, was not paid overtime, and received less than the agreed hourly rate, and the court granted his state law minimum wage claims.