BELLEVILLE — A former dry cleaning clerk is suing New York Cleaners Inc. and John McIntosh, her supervisor, citing alleged retaliatory discharge and failure to timely pay final wages.
Tamara J. Hues filed a complaint on March 29 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against the defendants alleging that they violated the Whistleblower Act and the Wage Collection and Payment Act.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that on April 12, 2016, plaintiff was unlawfully discharged from her employment. As a result, plaintiff suffered lost wages and benefits of full employment, inconvenience and humiliation. The plaintiff holds New York Cleaners and McIntosh responsible because they allegedly retaliated against her for disclosing information to the police department relating to a co-employee's assault on her that same day. For her actions, defendants discharged her, and allegedly failed to timely pay her final hours at work and her outstanding vacation pay.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks damages in excess of $50,000, attorney's fees, interest, costs and all other relief as this court deems just. She is represented by Feme P. Wolf and Joshua M. Pierson of Sower & Wolf LLC in St. Louis and Bruce R. Cook of Cook, Ysursa, Bartholomew, Brauer and Shevlin Ltd. in Belleville.
St. Clair County Circuit Court case number 17-L-162