BROOKLYN sweatshop workers have won a major victory with an Eastern District’s judge’s ruling that they are third-party beneficiaries to an agreement between a sportswear maker and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Judge I. Leo Glasser said the workers can recover minimum wages and overtime pay that their factories failed to pay them. The workers, Judge Glasser said, were the intended beneficiaries of a contract that Street Beat Sportwear Inc. signed with the Department. The compliance agreement obligated the sportswear manufacturer to ensure that the factories it hired to produce its goods could meet the minimum standards for employee pay under the law.
