KLEIN v. CGB PUBLISHING PTY LTD USA (2021)

Order (Denise M. Dominguez, J.), entered June 26, 2020, affirmed, without costs.

The inquest court correctly refused to award liquidated damages pursuant to Labor Law § 198(1-a). The statutory remedy of liquidated damages is “limited to actions for wage claims founded on the substantive provisions of Labor Law article 6” and such damages are not recoverable, as here, in a common-law contractual remuneration action (De La Cruz v Caddell Dry Dock & Repair Co., Inc., 22 AD3d 404, 406 [2005], quoting Gottlieb v Kenneth D. Laub & Co., 82 NY2d 457, 464 [1993], rearg denied 83 NY3d 801 [1994]; see APF Mgt. Co., LLC v Munn, 151 AD3d 668, 671 [2017]; Miles A. Kletter, D.M.D. & Andrew S. Levine, D.D.S., P.C. v Fleming, 32 AD3d 566, 567 [2006]; Slotnick v RBL Agency, 271 AD2d 365 [2000]). Nor could plaintiff interject a substantive Labor Law claim for the first time at inquest (see CPLR 3215[b]).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.

Per Curiam.

All concur.