RYE'S EXPLOITED GOLF CLUB LABOR FORCE STRIKES BACK

This weekend The Rye City Review moved a long front page article entitled “Whitby Employees Sue” that revealed that lawyers for the abused Rye employees had been moving in their defense since before December 23, 2013. I wasn’t aware of any of this but support it and believe I am joined by many many Rye Golf Club members and other Rye residents whose shocked reactions to the public admissions about these dirty illegal deeds can be viewed in the video of that reveal embedded in the following October 15, 2012 LausDeo10580 story:

http://www.lausdeo10580.com/lausdeo10580/2012/10/video-rgc-budget-fails-as-members-learn-club-is-keeping-workers-tipscity-mngr-pickup-returns-to-whit.html

Here are the first two paragraphs of The Review’s expose and the link to the full article of which the author & Review management should be rightfully proud:

Whitby Employees Sue - “The company may have been fake, but the employees weren’t. Nine waiters, kitchen workers and bartenders hired by RM Staffing, one of the alleged shell companies set up by former Rye Golf Club manager Scott Yandrasevich, have filed a lawsuit seeking unpaid overtime and stolen tips. The lawsuit was filed against the city, the golf club, RM Staffing, Yandrasevich and the Morris Yacht and Beach Club in the Bronx, where RM also supplied hourly employees.

The workers’ attorneys, unpaid overtime litigation firm Pelton & Associates based in Manhattan, said they expect restitution for their clients—pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law—could be “in the millions” of dollars and they are recruiting other former and current RM Staffing employees to qualify the lawsuit as a class action, where a group of people sues another group of people or a person.”

Full article is here - http://www.ryecityreview.com/whitby-employees-sue/

FOR MORE on some of the people trusted to prevent this kind of exploitation in Rye City government readers might see my previous January 15, 2014 ‘Speak Out’ article –

“RYE EXPLOITATION OF UNDOCUMENTED LABOR, NOT SIMPLY FRAUD, HEART OF RYE GOLF CASE.”

 http://rye.patch.com/groups/announcements/p/rye-exploitation-of-undocumented-labor-not-simply-fraud-heart-of-rye-golf-case

And just like Rye’s Schubert’s Pond fiasco, we are nowhere near the full discovery and accountability phase of this one folks.