Former Employees Claim Turtle Bay Cleaners Needs to Iron Out Pay Practices

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U.K. Cleaners, Inc. (which does business as Turtle Bay Cleaners) and two individual owners are facing a proposed collective action filed by three former employees who claim the defendants violated several provisions of state and federal labor laws. The plaintiffs say they ironed clothes at the defendants’ dry cleaner/laundromat business for 50 to 69 hours per week and were paid a fixed salary that never altered even when they worked past their scheduled hours. The suit argues that the plaintiffs were unlawfully denied minimum wages and time-and-a-half overtime wages for the hours they worked above 40. On top of that, the plaintiffs allege that they were not provided with uninterrupted breaks and were required to purchase “tools of the trade” – including shirts, shorts, shoes, and electric irons – without being reimbursed.