Legal Opinion
Soler v. G & U, INC.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 17, 1979No. 78 Civ. 6252, 6257-6261 (CHT)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TENNEY, District Judge.
These plaintiffs are some 100 migrant farmworkers who in 1978 worked on defendants’ farms in Orange County, New York. They bring an action under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (“the Act”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., to recover wage deductions made by the defendants for housing provided to the farm-workers in the defendants’ labor camps. The plaintiffs are paid the minimum wage, id. § 206(a)(5); however, Congress has included in the term “wage” the “reasonable cost, as determined by the Administrator [of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- United States v. Western Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- United States v. Michigan National Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Garber v. RandellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
- Walling v. Peavy-Wilson Lumber Co.District Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1943
- Usery v. Godwin Hardware, Inc.District Court, W.D. Michigan · 1976
3Cited by10 opinions
- Soler v. G & U, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1980
- Soler v. G & U, INC.District Court, S.D. New York · 1992
- Francisco Soler v. G. & U., Inc., and Secretary, United States Department of LaborCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1987
- Soler v. G & U, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1984
- Aviles-Cervantes v. Outside Unlimited, Inc.District Court, D. Maryland · 2017
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