I am an Indian-American journalist in New York and worked for a news weekly in Empire State Building, NY. The publisher cheated most of the employees and did not pay their salaries and I was the editor of the magazine.
One of the co workers from marketing department had filed a claim from the DOL and put my name as supervisor even though I am only an editor and do not supervise sales and marketing staff. I did file the complaint against the publisher for salary dues running to thousands of dollars. The DOL tried to locate the publisher and found he had fled to his home country. The DOL had made me a defendant and is trying to fork out the dues of my colleague and interest totaling $ 65,000. I had sent the DOL the names and address of the directors, name of the IT firm and address of the publisher in NJ and all the relevant details that would help DOL to help get both and my colleague help get back our dues totaling $ 150,000 but the DOL is adamant and says I am responsible and better pay the salary dues to my coworker under some strange NY Law. I have given evidence that an editor do not supervise marketing staff and she reported to the General Manager and that myself is a victim like my coworker the only difference is she is advt executive and I am its editor.
I am at a loss to know why DOL is after my blood when I am myself a victim of the same publisher.
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