OPINION & ORDER Plaintiffs Jose Alonso (“Alonso”) and Marcelo Juarez Flores (“Flores”) (collectively, “Named Plaintiffs”) bring this action against their employer New Day Top Trading, Inc. (“New Day Top”), alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C §§201, et seq., and the New York Labor Law (“NYLL”) §§190, et seq., and 650, et seq. Plaintiffs seek unpaid overtime wages, unpaid spread-of-hours wages, liquidated damages, statutory damages, prejudgment interest, and attorneys’ fees and costs from New Day Top. After the filing of the Complaint, five other individuals who purported to have been similarly situated to the Named Plaintiffs with respect to New Day Top’s allegedly unlawful wage-and-hour practices — Andres Maldonado (“Maldonado”), Jose Felix Perez (“Perez”), Rafael Soriano (“Soriano”), Gustavo Martinez Tapia (“Tapia”), and William Velos (“Velos”) (collectively, “Opt-In Plaintiffs”)1 — filed notices pursuant to 29 U.S.C. §216(b), indicating their consent to join the action and assert their own FLSA claims. New Day Top defaulted. The Court entered default judgment on liability and referred the case to Magistrate Judge Debra C. Freeman for an inquest into damages. Before the Court is Judge Freeman’s Report and Recommendation (the “Report”), Dkt. 67, to which the plaintiffs have objected in part (“Objections”), Dkt. 71. This decision resolves plaintiffs’ Objections and adopts the Report in its entirety. I. Background2 New Day Top, a New York corporation, operates three warehouses in New York and one in New Jersey. Dkt. 1 (“Compl.”) 19. The facts pertinent to each plaintiff’s claims are as follows. A. Alonso Alonso asserts that between January 2014 and November 2016, he was employed as a forklift driver in New Day Top’s Brooklyn and Queens warehouses.3 Id. 6. According to the Complaint, Alonso worked 10- and 11-hour shifts six days a week. Id. 8. In his Declaration submitted in connection with the damages inquest, Alonso estimated that he worked 63 hours per week, slightly less than his 65-hours-per-week estimate in the Complaint. See Dkt. 53-1 (“Alonso Decl”) 11; Compl. 9. Alonso contends that he was paid a “lump sum cash payment of $600.00 each week, regardless of the number of hours [he] worked,” Alonso Decl. 13; Compl. 66. Alonso asserts that he was not paid overtime wages for the hours he worked in excess of 40 hours per week, and that he did not receive “spread-of-hours” pay, in that he was not compensated at an additional hour of minimum wage for the hours he worked in excess of 10 hours per day. Compl.
54, 55. Alonso also asserts that he was never provided with any wage statements or notices. Id. 59, B. Flores Flores asserts that between June 2014 and July 2015, he was employed as a driver’s assistant at New Day Top’s Queens warehouses. Id. 13. According to the Complaint, Flores worked “six days each week, starting at 7:00 a.m. and ending between 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. each day,” which totaled approximately 75 to 85 hours per week. Id.
