13‐352‐cv Godlewska v. Human Development Association

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

SUMMARY ORDER

RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 8th day of April, two thousand fourteen.

PRESENT: RICHARD C. WESLEY, SUSAN L. CARNEY, Circuit Judges, RICHARD K. EATON, Judge.* ____________________________________________

ELZBIETA GODLEWSKA, KRYSTYNA BIELAWSKA, BARBARA HATALA, BARBARA PILCH, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated,

Plaintiffs‐Appellants,

BOLESLAW PRYZGODA,

Appellant,

*Judge Richard K. Eaton, of the United States Court of International Trade, sitting by designation.

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, INC., aka HDA, YECHILA GRUENWALD, individually and as Executive Director of HDA, aka YECHIEL GRUENWALD, ZVI KESTENBAUM, MARINA VOSKOBOYNIKO, GOLDA POKHIS, aka OLGA POKHIS, MARGARARITA ZILBERT, JANE DOE, aka FRIEDMAN, JANE DOE, 1‐10, JOHN DOE, 1‐10, being fictitious names, their true identities not yet known to the Plaintiffs, CITY OF NEW YORK HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION, CITY OF NEW YORK,

Defendants‐Appellees. ____________________________________________

FOR APPELLANTS: ROBERT WISNIEWSKI, Robert Wisniewski P.C., New York, NY.

FOR APPELLEES: BENJAMIN WELIKSON, Assistant Corporation Counsel (Andrea O’Connor, Francis F. Caputo, on the brief), for Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York, NY. ____________________________________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Joan M. Azrack, Magistrate Judge).

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED,

ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court be and

hereby is AFFIRMED.

2 Appellants challenge an order and judgment by the United States District

Court for the Eastern District of New York (Azrack, U.S.M.J.) finding the New

York City Human Resources Administration (“HRA”) and the City of New York

(collectively, “Municipal Defendants”) not to be Appellants’ joint employer and

accordingly granting Appellees’ cross‐motion for summary judgment on that

issue. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, procedural

history, and issues on appeal.

Having reviewed the factors set forth in Carter v. Dutchess Community

College,

(2d Cir. 1984), and Zheng v. Liberty Apparel Co.,

,

72 (2d Cir. 2003), as useful for assessing the economic reality of a putative

employment relationship, we find based on these factors and the totality of the

circumstances that there is not an employment relationship between the

Appellants and the Municipal Defendants.

For this reason the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

FOR THE COURT: Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk

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