Archive for September, 2010
Masaharu Morimoto and his upscale New York restaurant Morimoto were sued by a barback in a class action lawsuit for cheating the restaurant’s workers out of tips.
The case against Morimoto ...
Waiterpay.com has received national attention since its launch on September 20, 2010. The site, which focuses on wage and hour issues in the New York restaurant industry, was featured in
NBC,
Newsday,
The Village Voice, and other blogs. Waiterpay is aimed at educating New York restaurant employers and ...
The New York State Department of Labor recently fined Charles B. Park, the owner of Green Café in Ithaca, New York, one million dollars for failure to pay his workers at both Green Café and his New York City deli minimum wages and overtime, ...
The Charlotte Observer published a
story recently about a waitress who was fired for ranting on her Facebook page about a couple who stayed for a three hour lunch and left only a $5.00 tip. The waitress, Ashley Johnson, a college student, ...
The recent lawsuit against Iron Chef Mario Batali’s restaurants Babbo, Bar Jamon, Casa Moni, Otto Enoteca, and Tarry Lodge underscores the rampant wage and hour abuses in New York restaurants.
A program on How to Handle a Wage and Hour Case will be held at New York County Lawyers’ Association on October 13, 2010. Speakers at the program include Lou Greer, Assistant District Director, United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, and ...
A jury’s award of $105,000 in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by two waitresses at Racine, Wisconsin IHOP was affirmed by a federal court judge. The women, both in their teens, alleged that their assistant manager made sexually-charged comments, and engaged in inappropriate and ...
A former “Hooters Girl” filed a lawsuit claiming that the Hooters restaurant she worked at discriminated against her based on her weight. At 5’8” and 132 pounds, Cassandra Smith was allegedly told by supervisors at the Roseville, Michigan Hooters to “join a gym in ...
In light of Arizona’s new illegal-alien law and the nation-wide controversy surrounding it, it is important to be aware of the legal rights and remedies that are available to undocumented workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and other labor laws. Undocumented workers ...
The recent decision in Bogota v. The University Club by the New York Supreme Court has permitted the sex harassment claims of four waitresses at the prestigious University Club to move forward to trial. The waitresses, all of whom were part-time employees, were hired ...
The UK Telegraph ran a
story earlier this year that a Japanese court ruled that Nihonkai Shoya, a major Japanese restaurant chain, was required to pay the family of a worker 78.63 million yen (over $900,000) in damages because they worked him ...
Outback Steakhouse agreed to a
consent decree to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit for $19 million. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Outback Steakhouse discriminated against female employees by restricting their access to high-level managerial positions. The EEOC also alleged that ...
You should be paid for any time you are required to be in the restaurant.
Your restaurant cannot charge you for customer walkouts or breakage.
Your restaurant must pay you a minimum wage of at least $7.25 per hour, or at least $5.00 per hour (effective January 1, 2011) if it takes a “tip credit.”
The case against Morimoto ...
