Torres v. Gristede's Operating Corp.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ................................................................................... iii STATEMENT OF INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE ................................................ 1 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT ................................................................................. 6 ARGUMENT ...........................................................................................................10 I. IT IS FAIR AND NECESSARY TO HOLD INDIVIDUALS LIKE CATSIMATIDIS JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY LIABLE UNDER SECTION 203(d) BECAUSE OF PERSISTENT BARRIERS TO RECOVERY OF UNPAID WAGES EVEN AFTER A LIABILITY FINDING, AND CONTINUING HIGH RATES OF VIOLATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN LOW- WAGE INDUSTRIES LIKE RETAIL. ................................................................10 A. Individual Liability Deters Violations and is a Crucial Alternative Through Which Workers Can Recover Their Illegally Withheld Wages, Especially in Cases Where Workers are Unable to Recover From the <strong>Corp</strong>orate Defendant(s).......................................................................................................10 B. A Reversal Would Undermine the Act By Rewarding Catsimatidis’ Behavior to Avoid Compliance with the Act. ...................................................12 C. The FLSA Must Be Interpreted Consistent With Its Broad Remedial Purpose to Hold Individuals Like Catsimatidis Liable Because Rampant Violations of Wage and Hour Rights Persist, Particularly in Low-Wage Industries Like Retail. ........................................................................................15 II. INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY UNDER 29 U.S.C. § 203(d) IS EXPANSIVE, CONSISTENT WITH THE REMEDIAL PURPOSE OF THE FLSA. ..............19 III. DETERMINING WHETHER AN INDIVIDUAL ACTED “DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN THE INTEREST OF” THE CORPORATE EMPLOYER IS A BROAD INQUIRY, FOCUSING ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THAT INDIVIDUAL AND THE CORPORATE ENTITY AND EXAMINING THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL HAD CONTROL OVER THE i
Page 1 and 2: No. 11-4035-cv United States Court
Page 3: RULE 26.1 CORPORATE DISCLOSURE STAT
Page 7 and 8: TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Cases A.H. Phi
Page 9 and 10: Annette Bernhardt, Siobhan McGrath
Page 11 and 12: Amici respectfully submit this brie
Page 13 and 14: changing names or declaring bankrup
Page 15 and 16: SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT This is not a c
Page 17 and 18: Holding individuals like Catsimatid
Page 19 and 20: ARGUMENT I. IT IS FAIR AND NECESSAR
Page 21 and 22: analysis, the economic reality of t
Page 23 and 24: noted that a corporate entity’s a
Page 25 and 26: eport surveying nearly 4,500 low-wa
Page 27 and 28: Workplace, 27 COMP. LAB. L. & POL
Page 29 and 30: “Th[e] [Act’s] purpose will fai
Page 31 and 32: 323 (FLSA’s definition of “empl
Page 33 and 34: the relationship between the indivi
Page 35 and 36: Many Circuits have also cited an in
Page 37 and 38: individual defendant, who with his
Page 39 and 40: which plaintiffs were working, incl
Page 41 and 42: CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE I hereby

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