Legal Question in Employment Law in New York

I started working at a restaurant in NYC about 6 months ago. I started out as a hostess and did well. The manager actually told me I was the best hostess he�s ever seen. Fast-forward to 5 weeks ago after some little issues with a couple servers the last months, my manager told me that because it was so slow he didn�t need a host for about two weeks. I come in a week later to pick up my check and another girl is hosting there. I ask him about it and he tell me she�s only training for the other restaurant (that hasn�t opened yet). He then tells me that the owners fired some people but he�ll call me the first week of September, whether it was good or bad. It�s now the 17th and I haven�t heard from him. Can I do anything about this??
Up until the last two weeks I worked there, I was off the books and paid in cash unless I was serving.

Asked on 9/17/10, 7:55 pm

Arnold Nager Arnold H. Nager, Esquire

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If you were paid as an employee you would be eligible for unemployment insurance once you worked eighteen weeks.

Answered on 9/23/10, 4:24 pm

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