When most people think of a manual worker, they tend to imagine a person pumping gas at a service station or wearing a hard hat on a construction site, not a retail sales associate wearing designer clothes working in a fashion boutique. With that said, more and more retail workers in New York are filing lawsuits arguing that they too should be considered manual workers, and thus paid on a weekly basis, pursuant to Section 191 of the New York Labor Law (Section 191).