Clowns Sue Clowns.com For Wage Theft (404media.co) 42
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A group of clowns is suing their former employer Clowns.com for multiple labor law violations, according to recently filed court records. Four people -- Brayan Angulo, Cameron Pille, Janina Salorio, and Xander Black -- filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday alleging Adolph Rodriguez and Erica Barbuto, owners of Clowns.com and their former bosses, misclassified them as independent workers for years, and failed to pay them for their time. The Long Island-based company, which provides entertainers for events, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law, the lawsuit claims.
The owners of Clowns.com didn't give employees detailed pay statements as required by New York law, the lawsuit alleges. "As a result, Plaintiffs did not know how precisely their weekly pay was being calculated, and were thus deprived of information that could be used to challenge and prevent the theft of their wages," it says. The clowns weren't paid for time "spent at the warehouse gathering and loading equipment and supplies into vehicles," or for travel time between parties, or when parties went on for longer than expected, they claim. Pille said she's "proud to join with my clown colleagues" to stand up to wage theft and misclassification. "For years, Clowns.com has treated clowns, who are largely young actors with no prior training in clowning who sign up for this job to make ends meet, as independent contractors."
The owners of Clowns.com didn't give employees detailed pay statements as required by New York law, the lawsuit alleges. "As a result, Plaintiffs did not know how precisely their weekly pay was being calculated, and were thus deprived of information that could be used to challenge and prevent the theft of their wages," it says. The clowns weren't paid for time "spent at the warehouse gathering and loading equipment and supplies into vehicles," or for travel time between parties, or when parties went on for longer than expected, they claim. Pille said she's "proud to join with my clown colleagues" to stand up to wage theft and misclassification. "For years, Clowns.com has treated clowns, who are largely young actors with no prior training in clowning who sign up for this job to make ends meet, as independent contractors."
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You've clearly never searched for clown porn. There are a significant number of people who like clowns way to goddamn much.
Re:Clowning around (Score:4, Funny)
You know what they say about shoe sizes.
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They say...Um, they say, "My what big feet you must have", isn't that right, Uncle Phil?
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Right. And you look at your legally required pay stub, and know that you were paid what you were supposed to.
It doesn't penetrate your skull that other people, who get paid by the hour, do need to look at that, because, like your phone bill, some employers will add extra charges to pay you less, and increase their ROI.
Can't sleep (Score:4, Funny)
Clown will eat me
Re:Can't sleep, clown will eat me (Score:2)
Worse, could become President.
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Worse, could become President.
The makeup part [kym-cdn.com] is done. It just needs to be more original.*
* This is an unaltered photo. For reference, a second photo [cnn.com] taken at almost the same time by someone else at the same event from almost the same angle.
Whaddya expect when you work with (Score:4, Funny)
...a bunch of clowns?
the mob owns the clown collage (Score:3)
the mob owns the clown collage
Man: Kids have a lot of money these days. So after you finish your
performance, you might consider robbing them
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...a bunch of clowns?
Actually it's quite a sad story.
It sounds like... (Score:1)
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Saw that coming (Score:2)
Only a clown would incorporate an online business in New York. If your business is based on wage theft, there are much better options.
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- WHAT AREAS DO YOU SERVICE?
We service Long Island, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Yonkers & Southern Westchester.
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Wow, really? I just assumed they were a national service. That's even less reason this should be on Slashdot. Who cares about an irrelevant lawsuit against a minor CLOWN SCHEDULING WEBSITE?
The only nerdy reason is that they paid a lot for a good domain name, so... good job I guess?
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Has a point? (Score:4, Funny)
CEO: "But they didn't do full work, we have them on video clowning around!"
a bunch of clows posted the story (Score:2)
what ever happened to news for nerds?
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I thought this was about tech support workers.
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That's funny because Cowboy Neal hasn't been associated with Slashdot for over a decade now. Given the rest of your post your ignorance doesn't surprise me.
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Hahaha, you're pathetic and so is your spin on you talking with your head up your ass.
If Slashdot is such a horrible place what are you even doing on it? Are you some sort of brave "freedom fighter"?
Re:whatever happened to news for nerds? (Score:1)
It's clown news for clown nerds.
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Well you see articles are made automatically appropriate for Slashdot whenever someone engages in the Slashdot tradition of whining about whether the article is appropriate. I'd explain the transmutation process but I don't think you have the math for it.
Hmm, gives new meaning to... (Score:2)
Hmm, gives new meaning to...clowning around.
JoshK.
way to much control to be an independent contracto (Score:2)
way to much control to be an independent contractor.
When you have to use their warehouse
make you pay for their uniforms (I think also in NY employers must purchase or reimburse employees for required uniforms)
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the dot will not allow that
Can't Afford Clown College. (Score:1)
Gotta sue some clowns.
Jury trial? (Score:2)
In the US it will certainly be a jury of their peers.
Thank you!
These Krusty brand balloons are three bucks each. (Score:2)
Krusty: These Krusty brand balloons are three bucks each. But get a
cheap one and what happens? It goes off, takes out the eyeballs
of every kid in the room! What's _that_ going to cost you?
[to accountant] Hey, Bill, what did that cost us?
huh? (Score:1, Troll)
What a bunch of ... (Score:2)
still their transportation costs should be low (Score:2)
At this point gig workers (Score:1)