Greenpoint’s famed Peter Pan Donuts stiffed a long-time cook and dishwasher on overtime pay, the employee claims, and now he is suing the store’s owner over the allegedly crummy treatment.
The worker isn’t seeking cruller unusual punishment, says his attorney — he just wants the Manhatten Avenue bakery to fork over the extra dough.
“We expect Peter Pan to do the right thing and fully reimburse my client for the wages and damages he is owed,” said attorney Justin Zeller, whose client Angel Cumbe filed a suit on Monday, as first reported by the Daily News.
Cumbe claims he worked up to 60 hours a week during his nine-year tenure at the neighborhood staple — 20 hours more than an old-fashioned work week.
Workers are supposed to earn at yeast time-and-a-half for overtime hours, but the suit alleges that Peter Pan paid Cumbe flat weekly rates — around $560 at first, which was then raised to $700 during the past year, before Cumbe got fed up with the hole business and quit last month.
And to take the cake, the store paid him in cash and never provided pay-slips detailing his wages or hours worked, the complaint alleges.
Zeller is now using the long-John arm of the law to demand owner Christas Siakakis pay Cumbe up to $7,500 — which he claims amounts to $100 for every week the company creamed off wages before March of last year, and $250 for every week frittered away after that.
Donna Siakakis, Christas’ wife, said the store still hasn’t been served with any papers, and only found out about the suit when the Daily News called.
Siakakis — who said she is at the shop more than her husband and deals with the employees and the payment — said she treats her employees well, many of them have been with her for over 10 years.
“I know what I do as an employer and I have a clear conscience,” she said.
