CONSENT JUDGMENT AGAINST ALL DEFENDANTS
JAMES C. MAHAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff, THOMAS PEREZ, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor (the "Secretary"); Defendant A CAB LLC, and CREIGHTON J. NADY, an individual, (collectively, "Defendants") having appeared through counsel, and having been duly advised on the proceedings, waive their right to answer the Secretary's Complaint and agree to resolve the matters in controversy in this civil action, and consent to the entry of this Consent Judgment in accordance herewith:
A. The Secretary filed a Complaint alleging that Defendants violated provisions of Sections 6, 11(c), 15(a)(2) and 15(a)(5) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended ("FLSA" or the "Act"). 29 U.S.C. § 206, 211(c), 215(a)(2), and (5). The Secretary's Complaint alleged that Defendants violated Sections 6 and 15(a)(2) of the FLSA by paying its employees' wages at rates less than the applicable federal minimum wage in workweeks when said employees were engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or were employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, within the meaning of the FLSA; and Defendants violated Sections 11(c) and 15(a)(5) of the FLSA by failing to make, keep and preserve records of their employees and of the wages, hours, and other conditions and practices of employment maintained by them as prescribed by the regulations found in 29 CFR part 516 that are issued, and from time to time amended, pursuant to section 11(c) of the FLSA.
B. Defendants understand and agree that demanding or accepting any of the funds due employees under this Consent Judgment ("Consent Judgment" or "Judgment") or threatening any employee for accepting money due under this Consent Judgment or for exercising any of their rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended ("FLSA" or "the Act"), 29 U.S.C. §201, et seq. is specifically prohibited by this Consent Judgment and may subject Defendants to equitable and legal damages, including punitive damages and civil contempt.
C. Defendants waive Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, and agree to the entry of this Consent Judgment in settlement of this action, without further contest.
Therefore, upon motion of the attorneys for the Secretary, and for cause shown:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that pursuant to Section 17 of the FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 217, Defendants, their officers, agents, servants, employees, and all persons in active concert or participation with them be, and they hereby are, permanently enjoined and restrained from violating the provisions of the Act, in any of the following manners:
1. Defendants shall not, contrary to Section 6 and 15(a)(2) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. ¶¶ 206 and 215(a)(2), employ any of their employees at rates less than the applicable federal minimum wage in workweeks when said employees are engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or are employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, within the meaning of the FLSA.
2. Defendants shall not, contrary to Sections 11(c) and 15(a)(5) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 211(c) and 215(a)(5), fail to make, keep and preserve records of their employees and of the wages, hours, and other conditions and practices of employment maintained by them as prescribed by the regulations found in 29 CFR part 516 that are issued, and from time to time amended, pursuant to section 11(c) of the Act.
3. Defendants, jointly and severally, shall not continue to withhold payment of $139,834.80, plus interest of $154.00, which represents the unpaid minimum wage compensation hereby found to be due for the period from October 1, 2010, through October 1, 2012, to the present and former employees named in Exhibit A, attached hereto and made a part hereof, in the amounts set forth therein.
FURTHER, JUDGMENT IS HEREBY ENTERED, pursuant to Section 16(c) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. § 216(c), in favor of the Secretary and against the Defendants, jointly and severally, in the total amount of $139,988.80
4. The provisions of paragraphs 3 of this Consent Judgment will be deemed satisfied when Defendants deliver the following to District Director, Wage and Hour Division, United States Department of Labor, 600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Suite 750 Las Vegas, NV 89101-6654.
a. Within fourteen calendar days of the entry of this Consent Judgment, Defendants shall deliver a schedule containing the last known (home) address, social security number, home telephone number (if known), and cell phone number of those persons listed in Exhibit A.
b. PAYMENT TERMS. No later than January 2, 2015, Defendants shall deliver a cashier's check or money order in the amount of $39,988.84 payable to the order of the "Wage & Hour Div., Labor," with the term "A Cab, LLC" written thereon, as the first of thirteen payments towards the back wages found due hereunder.
c. On or before the first day of each of the following 12 consecutive months, Defendants shall deliver a cashier's check or money order payable to "Wage & Hour Div., Labor," with the term "A Cab, LLC" written thereon, in the amount of $8,333.33, until the total amount due under the backwage provisions of this Consent Judgment has been paid in full.
5. The Secretary shall allocate and distribute the remittances, or the proceeds thereof, less deductions for employees' share of Social Security and federal withholding taxes to the persons named in the attached Exhibit A, or to their estates if that be necessary, in his sole discretion, and any money not so paid within a period of three years from the date of its receipt, because of an inability to locate the proper persons or because of their refusal to accept it, shall be then deposited in the Treasury of the United States, as miscellaneous receipts, pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 216(c). The Secretary shall be responsible for deducting the employee's share of FICA and federal income taxes from the amounts paid to the persons named in the attached Exhibit A, and for remitting said deductions to the appropriate federal agencies.
6. Defendants shall not request, solicit, suggest, or coerce, directly, or indirectly, any employee to return or to offer to return to any Defendant or to any person acting on behalf of any Defendant, any money in the form of cash, check, or any other form, for wages previously due or to become due in the future to said employee under the provisions of this judgment or the Act; nor shall any Defendant accept, or receive from any employee, either directly or indirectly, any money in the form of cash, check, or any other form, for wages heretofore or hereafter paid to said employee under the provisions of this judgment or the Act; nor shall Defendants discharge or in any other manner discriminate, nor solicit or encourage anyone else to discriminate, against any such employee because such employee has received or retained money due to him from the Defendants under the provisions of this judgment or the Act. Defendants shall pay all wages owed to their employees "free and clear," as required by 29 C.F.R. § 531.35. herein, the full gross amount outstanding due under this Consent Judgment, plus liquidated damages due under FLSA Section 16(c), 29 U.S.C. § 216(c), in the amount of $139,834.80, plus post-judgment interest at the rate of 10% per year from the date of this Consent Judgment until the full amount of this Consent Judgment is paid in full, shall become immediately due and payable directly to the U.S. Department of Labor by certified check to the District Director of the Wage and Hour Division at the address in paragraph 4. For the purposes of this paragraph, a "default" is deemed to occur if payment is not delivered within five calendar days of the due date.
8. Defendants shall make and keep records demonstrating the total number of hours worked for each driver for each day and each week.
9. Defendants shall not claim that any portion of a driver's work shift is break time to be excluded from hours worked unless the driver is completely relieved from all duties for at least 30 consecutive minutes.
10. The filing, pursuit, and/or resolution of this proceeding with the filing of this Consent Judgment shall not act as or be asserted as a bar to any action under Section 16(b) of the FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 216(b), as to any employee not named on the Exhibit A attached to the Consent Judgment and incorporated hereto by reference, nor as to any employee named on the Exhibit A for any period not specified herein for the back wage recovery provisions.
11. Defendants agree and stipulate to enter into this Consent Judgment for the sole purpose of resolving disputed facts and neither admit nor deny the allegations contained in the Secretary's Complaint.
12. Each party shall bear all fees and other expenses (including court costs) incurred by such party in connection with any stage of this proceeding to date; and it is further,
ORDERED that the parties to the instant complaint shall comply with the tenns of this Consent Judgment;
ORDERED that this Court shall retain jurisdiction of this action for purposes of enforcing compliance with the terms of this Consent Judgment; and
EXHIBIT A
NAME
Abdella, Juhar M
Abebe, Tamrat
Abraha, Tesfalem B
Abuel, Alan B
Abuhay, Fasil M
Acosta, Lorrie F
Adamian, Robert
Adams, Michael J
Adamson, Nicole K
Agacevic, Ibnel
Ahmed, Ahmed A
Alemayhu, Tewodros D
Alexander, Darvious N
Ali, Abraham A
Allen, Otis L
Alnaif, Abdul S
Altamura, Vincent T
Alves, Mary A
Ameha, Samuale B
Anastasio, James
Anderson, Jason E
Anderson, Roosevelt A
Anif, Janeid M
Appel, Howard J
Applegate, Angela M
Arar, Isam K
Arell, Roger D
Arellano, Miguel A
Arnwine, Howard B
Asad, Tassawar A
Aseffa, Mulubahan Z
Assena, Zenebech K
Atanasov, Nikolay P
Atterbury, Joseph A
Aurich, Juan P
Awalom, Alemayehu G
Azzouay, El Houcine
Baca-Paez, Sergio A
Baker, Timothy J
Bakhtiari, Marco L
Barbu, Ion D
Bardo, Timothy F
Barich, Edward C
Barnes, Benjamin
Barr, Kenneth W
Barrett, Jon A
Barseghyan, Artur
Bartunek, Johnny W
Batista, Eugenio L
Bellegarde, Josue
Benel, Christian E
Bey, Ronald A
Bialorucki, Richard M
Black, Burton J
Blanco, Mario L
Blanusa, Zeljko
Boling, Freddy D
Borges, Antonio G
Borja, Virginia
Bowen, Christopher T
Bozic, Nebojsa
Bradley, Leroy V
Brauchle, Michael
Brimhall, Tracy L
Brisco, Allen L
Briski, Louis
Brown, Maurice
Buergey, Christopher M
Butler, Bonnie J
Caldwell Jr., Paul M
Calise, Domenic R
Cancio-Betancourt, Rene S
Carr, Jamaal C
Casiello, Anthony R
Catoggio, Alfred T
Caymite, Luc
Chang, Yun-Yu
Chasteen, Jeffrey T
Chatrizeh, Shahin
Chau, Phi V
Chico, David
Choudhary, Krishna M
Christensen, Rosa L
Christodoulou, Panos
Cohoon, Thomas S
Coizeau, Leonardo R
Collier, Ella R
Collins, Donald V
Collins, Lincoln
Coney-Cummings, Keisha T
Conway, James H
Costello, Brad
Craddock, Charles P
Crawford, Darryl W
Daniels, Donald W
Daniels, Katherine A
Danielsen, Danny
D'Arcy, Timothy C
Davis, Bradley C
Deguzman, Fermin B
Deguzman, Leloi S
DeMarco, William J
Deocampo, Michael M
Desta, Fissehaye S
Diaz, Aiser L
Dibaba, Desta T
Diemoz, Ernest D
Dillard, Corey L
Dinok, Ildiko
Disbrow, Ronald L
Dobszewicz, Gary S
Donahoe, Stephen L
Dontchev, Nedeltcho
Dotson, Contessa R
Dotson, Eugene B
Draper, Ivan L
Dudek, Anthony R
Durey, Robert J
Durtschi, Jeffrey
Edwards, Jeffrey A
Egan, Joseph W
Ekoue, Ayi
Ellis, Charles C
Emling, Paul E
Ernst, William L
Eshaghi, Mohammad
Estrada, Michael S
Evans, Pamela D
Fadlallah, Michel J
Farah, Yohannes M
Fears, Thomas A
Feleke, Melak M
Fesehazion, Teabe
Filfel, Kamal A
Fleming, Gary G
Frankenberger, Grant R
Furst III, James P
Garcia, John E
Garcia, Miguel B
Gardea, Alfred E
Gared, Yaekob G
Garras, Bill G
Gaumond, Gerard J
Gebrayes, Henock L
Gebremariam, Meley A
Gebreyes, Fanuel H
Gelane, Samuel G
Ghori, Azhar
Gianopoulos, Samuel N
Gillett, David C
Gilmore, Paula J
Gleason, John T
Glogovac, Goran
Godsey, Kelly L
Golden, Theresa M
Golla, Dawit A
Gomez-Gomez, Arlene R
Gonzalez, Luis A
Gonzalez, Ramon
Goolsby, Victor
Grafton, Natasha D
Gray, Gary D
Green, Tony D
Greever, Rickey E
Gross, Timothy S
Guil, Inessa
Guinan, William J
Gyuro, John H
Habtom, Ermias
Hadley, Aaron S
Haigh III, Walter E
Hanna, Christopher S
Hansen, Jordan Z
Haralambov, Valko G
Harms, Michael
Harrell, Mark K
Harris III, Reggie W
Harris, Dennis R
Harris, Jason B
Harris, Jay L
Harun, Idris Y
Hasen, Akmel W
Haskell, William L
Hays, Larry M
Herbert, Christopher L
Herga, Ryan A
Hinks, Dana
Holcomb, Dalton E
Holler, Alfonso
Hollis, James L
Holt, John R
Hooper, Donald L
Hoschouer, Christina A
Hughes, Jerry
Hunter, James A
Huntington, Walter D
Hurd, Donald P
Hurley, Robert A
Hurtado, Hubert B
Hussien, Leykun E
Inman, Christopher W
Ivey, Timothy
Jackson, Frederick D
Jackson, Willie J
Jarmosco, John J
Jelancic, Vladko
Jellison, Charles S
Jimenez, Michael J
Johnson, Kennard T
Johnson, Richard B
Johnson, Rodney L
Jones, Glenn O
Joseph, Leroy A
Kaiyoorawongs, Chaipan
Kang, Chong
Kang, Dae Ik
Kaplon, Mark S
Karner, Adam M
Keba, Woldmarim G
Kenary, Brian T
Kennerly, Bridgett N
Kern, Gary F
Key, Roy F
King Jr., John
Klein, Phillip N
Knight, Tyree D
Kogan, Martin J
Krouse, Stephen P
Kunik, Robert
Laico, Paul T
Lantis, Glen
Leacock, Brian
Leal, Jill I
Lee, Thomas J
Legesse, Dereje G
Ligus, Thomas J
Link, Peter J
Linn, Ronald M
Linzer, Steven A
Little, Dennis P
Lonbani, Khosro D
Lovelady, Warren S
Lovin, Charles E
Lydick, Chip S
Macato, Jaime L
Magana, Luis Antonio
Magazin, Milorad
Mahoney, Kevin J
Mainwaring, David C
Majors, John N
Manor, Quincy A
Maras, Maria M
Martinez-Ramirez, Eduardo
Mastrio, Angelo M
Maza, Inez E
McCarter, Patrick E
McCarthy, John L
McConnell, Therral R
McCoubrey, Earl E
McGowan, Sean
McGregor, Matthew E
McLandaum, Antonio O
McNeece, James J
Medina, Taurean S
Mekonen, Solomon
Melesse, Abebe B
Meloro, Paul M
Mengesha, Alemayehu
Menocal, Pedro P
Mezzenasco, Pedro J
Milliron, Darrol Q
Mindyas, James B
Mirkulovski, Danny
Mitrikov, Ilko I
Mogeeth, Ehab K
Monforte II, Peter R
Monteagudo, Oscar C
Montoya, Francisco J
Moore, Aileen L
Moore, Jerry
Moreno, James M
Moretti, Bryan J
Morley, David L
Morris, Robert
Morris, Thomas J
Mostafa, Ahmed M
Murawski, Richard F
Murray, Mark A
Murray, Michael P
Nazarov, Mikael A
Ndichu, Simon K
Negashe, Legesse M
Netrayana, Kanchalee
Newell, John D
Ngo, Tuan T
Nichols, Keith
Nigussie, Gulilat T
Norberg, Christopher R
Norvell, Chris D
Ocampo, Leonardo O
Ogbazghi, Dawit
Ohlson, Ryan E
Olen, Virginia F
Oliveros, Mario
Ontura, Tesfalem B
O'Shea, Kevin M
Osterman, Victor L
Overson, Michael T
Oyebade, Vincent O
Ozgulgec, Tunc
Pak, Sam U
Pariso, David J
Parker, Shawnette M
Paros, Nicholas
Patry, Michael J
Pearson, Jon C
Penera, Eric S
Perrotti, Dominic W
Peterson, Kenneth C
Peterson, Steven A
Petrossian, Robert
Phonesavanh, Paul
Pilkington, Margaret A
Pitts, Amir G
Platania, John A
Pletz, David E
Pohl, Daniel
Portillo, Mario E
Presnall, Darryl L
Price, Allen D
Price, James L
Prifti, Ilia K
Purdue, Robert H
Pyles, Joseph P
Ramirez, Erney M
Rasheed, Willie A
Ray, William A
Reid, Marvin D
Relopez, Craig M
Reno, Michael A
Rivas, Victor M
Roach, Jayson R
Roberson, Ronnie
Roberts, James
Robles, Mark A
Rockett Jr., Roosevelt
Rohlas, Polly A
Romano, Anthony L
Romero, Ruben J
Rosenthal, John S
Ross, Larry W
Rothenberg, Edward L
Rotich, Emertha
Rousseau, James R
Ruby, Melissa F
Ruiz, Travis C
Russell, Darrell L
Saevitz, Neil R
Salameh, George S
Saleh, Jemal
Sampson, James M
Sanders, Acy
Saravanos, John T
Sayed, Jamil A
Schoeb, Kirk C
Schroeder, William L
Schwartz, George H
Schwartz, Steven
Sedgwick, Anthony A
Serio, John A
Serrano, Hector N
Sevillet, Otto E
Sexner, Alexis L
Shallufa, Azmy
Shein, Efraim
Sherman, Jason C
Shinn, Kevin H
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Siegel, Jeffrey M
Siljak, Lidija
Siljkovic, Becir
Simmons, John D
Sinay, Abraham
Singh, Baldev
Sitotaw, Haileab T
Smale, Charles J
Smith Jr., Willie
Smith, Jepthy L
Smith, Lisa
Smith, Lottie M
Smith, Robert J
Solis, Brigido D
Sorbi, Nina F
Soree, Mladen V
Sorrosa-Paulin, Juan
Soto, Jacob D
Soto, Johnny
Sparks, Cody J
Spaulding, Ross X
Spilmon, Mark A
Springer, Marvin L
Stauff, John E
Stayton, William P
Steck, Gregory C
Stern, Robert H
Stevenson, John F
Stockton, Clarence W
Stonebreaker, Dawn M
Talley, George A
Tarragano, Stephen G
Terry, James J
Thomas, Scott R
Thompson, Glen R
Thompson, Michael B
Ticheste, Biserot G
Travis, Brian T
Tucker, Kenlon A
Tullao, Isaac T
Tyler, Christopher M
Ullah, Mohammad H
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Vongthep, Christopher
Wagg, John M
Wakeel, Daud I
Wallace, James S
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Warner, Terrance O
Weaver, Gerie L
Webb, Ricky
Weiss, Matthew B
Welborn, Paul M
Weldu, Berhane G
Welzbacher, Daniel R
Williams, Danny H
Wilson Jr., Mose
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Woodall, Charles E
Wright, Edward T
Yabut, Gerry C
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Yepiz-Patron, Ubaldo
Yesayan, Razmik
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Zabadneh, Randa
Zafar, John A
Zawoudie, Masfen B
Zeleke, Abraham A
Zhen, Yong Q