A car wash in Upper Manhattan agreed to pay its employees more than $1.7 million for five years worth of underpaid wages, under a settlement announced Tuesday by the state Labor Department.
The car wash, Broadway Bridge Wash & Lube at Broadway and 220th Street, routinely cheated its workers, who usually worked 72 hours a week, out of overtime wages and tips from 2003 to 2008, the Labor Department said. Some earned as little as $3.75 an hour, which was $3 below minimum wage at the time, the department said.
Broadway Bridge also agreed to pay $215,000 in penalties to the Labor Department. The settlement stemmed from a statewide investigation of car washes that the Labor Department undertook in 2008. It found that in New York City, as many as 78 percent of car washes violated minimum-wage and overtime laws. A call to the operators of Broadway Bridge — David Winter, Ehud Cafri and Ori Apple — was not immediately returned.
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