Polanco v. Brookdale Hospital Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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• holding that claims that employees “worked ... after regular hours[ ] and ... were not paid for this work” alleged “a violation of an independent statutory right arising under the NYLL”
• “Although the CBA may provide additional rights to the employees, it may not override independent statutory rights provided by the NYLL.”
• “Regardless of whether the facts alleged by plaintiffs constitute a violation of the CBA, they may also make out an independent claim under Article 19 of the NYLL.”
• \[e]ven if resolution of a state-law claim 'involves attention to the same factual considerations as the contractual determination . . . such parallelism [does not mandate preemption].'\
• “Employees’ rights to minimum wage and overtime pay under the FLSA are separate and distinct from employees’ contractual rights arising out of an applicable collective bargaining agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).