A Royal Flush employee worked anywhere from 72 to 100 hours cleaning portable toilets (not pictured) without getting overtime, a lawsuit charges. (Getty/iStock)
Working for Royal Flush porta-potties really stinks, a new lawsuit charges.
Portable toilet cleaner German Sosa Cardoso charges in a new suit filed in Manhattan Federal Court that the company regularly failed to pay him overtime for six or seven day workweeks in which he worked in excess of 12-hour days.
Documents say he typically worked anywhere from 72 to 100 hours a week, mainly at the company's lot on Randall Ave. in the Bronx.
Adding insult to injury, Cardoso says the company deducted $5 biweekly from his paycheck to clean his uniform.
"Due to the nature of his work, and the material of such uniforms, it was necessary for Plaintiff to constantly launder his uniform to keep it clean," Cardoso's attorney Brent Pelton writes in the suit.
Cardoso worked from 2010 to March 2015, papers show, and his most recent wages were $16 an hour.
The suit seeks class action status and estimates more than 40 people have claims similar to Cardoso's.
Royal Flush says it is the third largest privately owned portable restroom rental company in the country.
A Royal Flush representative said no one was available to discuss the suit and an email was not returned.
The suit is reminiscent of one covered exclusively by the Daily News regarding alleged labor violations at Call-A-Head, another large porta-john company.
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