Ovadia v Office of the Indus. Bd. of Appeals
2012 NY Slip Op 05112 [96 AD3d 641]
June 26, 2012
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 1, 2012


Eyal Ovadia et al., Petitioners,
v
Office of the Industrial Board of Appeals et al., Respondents.

[*1] D'Agostino, Levine, Landesman & Lederman, LLP, New York (Bruce H. Lederman of counsel), for petitioners.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, New York (C. Michael Higgins of counsel), for respondents.

Upon remittitur from the Court of Appeals (Matter of Ovadia v Office of the Indus. Bd. of Appeals, 19 NY3d 138 [2012]), determination of respondent Industrial Board of Appeals, dated December 14, 2009, affirming an order of respondent Commissioner of the Department of Labor directing petitioners to pay the claimants unpaid wages, unanimously annulled, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded for further proceedings.

The Court of Appeals remitted the matter to this Court with directions to remand to the Industrial Board of Appeals for further proceedings in accordance with Court of Appeals' opinion, including "a determination of whether Ovadia made an enforceable promise to pay the workers for their continued work following Bruten's disappearance and whether the workers relied on his promise by continuing to work at the construction site for the following six days" (id. at 145). Concur—Sweeny, J.P., Moskowitz, DeGrasse, Freedman and Richter, JJ.