Legal Opinion
Ansoumana v. Gristede's Operating Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 24, 2001No. 00 Civ. 253(AKH)PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION
HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs are unskilled workers who were assigned by labor agents to stores of supermarket and drugstore chains in New York City, to deliver products from those stores to retail customers according to the instructions of supervisors in the stores. The supermarket and drugstore chains considered the Plaintiffs independent contractors, not employees, and the labor agents who gathered and assigned them also considered them independent contractors. In consequence, Plaintiffs allege, they were not…
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