Walmart Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit for Paying Worker Too Infrequently

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A Walmart in New York should have been paying its maintenance worker weekly for the 18 years she worked there, but instead it paid her bi-weekly, a new labor class action lawsuit alleges.

Plaintiff Raouf Hanna Sharoubim filed the class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Associates, Inc. Monday in a New York federal court, alleging the retail giant has violated New York Labor Laws.

Sharoubim says she was employed by Walmart as an hourly-paid maintenance worker at its store in East Setauket from about 2003 to January this year.

She says she was a “manual worker” within the meaning of New York’s Labor Law (NYLL), as over 25 percent of her duties were physical tasks, including cleaning, stripping and waxing the floor, cleaning and maintaining the inside and outside of the store and standing for long periods of time. 

However, Sharoubim says Walmart failed to pay her “on a weekly basis and not later than seven calendar days after the end of the week in which the wages are earned,” which the class action lawsuit says is required by New York labor laws.

“Instead, Defendant paid Plaintiff on a bi-weekly pursuant to its payroll policy in violation of New York Labor Law § 191,” the claim states.

“Due to Defendant’s violations of the NYLL, Plaintiff is entitled to recover from Defendant the amount of his untimely paid wages as liquidated damages, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, and pre-judgment and post-judgment interest as provided for by NYLL § 198.” 

Sharoubim is looking to represent all others similarly affected and is seeking injunctive and declaratory relief, compensatory damages, liquidated damages, punitive damages, attorneys’ fees and other appropriate relief. 

American multinational retail corporation Walmart is the world’s biggest retail company with a reported revenue of US$514.405 billion, according to the Fortune Global 500 2019 list. 

The consumer goods, food produce and retail corporation has found itself facing a range of consumer backlash regarding improper company practices, employment discrimination, and more, which have resulted in a range of class action lawsuits being filed. 

The Walmart lawsuit filings follow claims of customer data breach, price exploitation, an unfair COVID-19 return policy, and more. Click here to discover more lawsuits against Walmart.

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Sharoubim is represented by Peter A. Romero of the Law Office of Peter A. Romero PLLC.

The Walmart Bi-Weekly Pay Lawsuit is Sharoubim v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., Case No, 2:21-cv-02903, in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York

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