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

A New York federal district court denied Sarene Services, Inc. and its owner’s request to reduce liquidated damages under the Fair Labor Standards Act after a jury found them liable for overtime, recordkeeping, and anti-retaliation violations, ruling that the home healthcare company failed to demonstrate both subjective good faith and objective reasonableness in their failure to keep records of live-in aides’ actual hours worked and to pay overtime wages for work performed during meal and sleep breaks, as evidenced by inadequate timekeeping systems and the fact that not a single aide was ever paid overtime for interrupted breaks.

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