\nOn her paycheck for the week of May 11, 2017, through May 18, 2017, <\/span>Plaintiff worked 0.88 hours of overtime, and was paid for that time $11.3723 per hour. During that period, New York law provided that workers in her region were owed a minimum wage of $9.70 per hour and employers were permitted to assert a tip credit of no more than $1.60 per hour. Thus, Defendants were required to pay Plaintiff at least $12.95 per hour for overtime, as one-and-a-half times the statutory minimum rate of $9.70 is $14.55, less the tip credit of $1.60, resulting in a total of $12.95.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nBrown’s attorneys said she was paid under the same pay structure for hours over 40 worked in both 2018 and 2019. <\/span><\/p>\nPlaintiff Not Getting Rich<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\nThe Rush Street class action settlement allows hourly tipped workers who believe they were underpaid to recoup their financial shortcomings. Rivers currently employs more than 850 workers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
Though Brown led the legal fight, she won’t be flushing her bank account with the settlement. The agreement limits her compensation to $7,500. Though that’s considerably more than she allegedly wasn’t paid through overtime work, the payment amount is for Brown’s “efforts to pursue the claims raised in this Litigation on behalf of the Settlement Class,” the agreement explains.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nAttorneys stand to collect much more money from the settlement fund. The arrangement allows lawyers to recoup up to $1.925 million in fees.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The parent company of Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady in upstate New York is settling a class action lawsuit brought by its workers for about $5.5 million. In April, attorneys representing plaintiff Kendra Brown filed a class and collective action complaint against Rush Street Gaming, LLC, and Capital Region Gaming, LLC — collectively the owner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":233829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,60],"tags":[82103,34,82521],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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