Comment: “First-world smarts. Third-world morals. Brace yourself for the coming clusterfuck in Western society. People like Cruz and 99% of Republicans want to increase these people in our country. The “good” and “beneficial” immigrants.”
New York Post: The owners of a $13.9 million Upper West Side duplex rode roughshod over their chauffeur, cheating him out of thousands of dollars in overtime, a lawsuit charges.
Vikas Kapoor, CEO of meZocliq, a tech company, and his wife, Jaishri, allegedly owe almost $37,000 to Lucian Alexandrescu, their driver from May 2013 to August 2015.
Alexandrescu was hired at $36 per hour to take Mrs. Kapoor on shopping trips; Mr. Kapoor to business dinners and social engagements, and their kids to extra-curricular activities.
He was also required to drive the family to their Connecticut farm “and remain near the farm Monday through Thursday nights of each week,” says his Manhattan federal court suit filed Friday.
The suit claims that in September 2013, the couple cut Alexandrescu’s wages “on the grounds that he was earning too much money.’’ The Kapoors, he said, told him they would only pay $18 per hour for time he was waiting for a passenger.
Alexandrescu agreed, but when keeping track of waiting time versus driving time became too burdensome, a new deal was made, he said. Under it, the driver was paid $28.50 per hour whether he was driving or waiting.
The Kapoors, he claims, failed to pay him overtime for more than 800 hours.
After returning to New York from a vacation to his native Romania, Alexandrescu was fired in September 2015.
