The scope of liability under Samiento v. World Yacht, the landmark 2008 decision by the New York Court of Appeals, is facing a challenge from New York legislators. A proposed Senate Bill and an Assembly Bill in the New York State Legislature seek to eliminate past liability for catering halls and restaurants ...
A former corporate accountant for The Fireman Group Café Concepts, Inc. has filed a lawsuit alleging that she was harassed, discriminated against, retaliated against, and discharged due to her national origin. Samah Abdeldayam alleges in her Complaint that as early as her first day of work her supervisor expressed shock that she was hired ...
Bartenders and servers at New York and Florida locations of Ruby Tuesday have sued the restaurant for unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, unpaid spread-of-hours, and for requiring bartenders to make up cash shortages in the tip pool allocation between servers and food runners, hosts, and ...
A former waiter for “Graham Elliot,” a popular Chicago restaurant owned by Celebrity Chef Graham Elliot, claims that the restaurant maintained an illegal tip pool which included cooks and food runners, positions which do not customarily receive tips.
According to the Complaint, ...
A kitchen worker at Masala Wok & Grill in Seldon, New York alleges that the restaurant forced him to live in an isolated basement room with poor ventilation and with four other restaurant workers as a condition of his employment and failed to pay him minimum wage and overtime pay and other wages required ...
A race discrimination lawsuit filed against Sparx, a Menomonie, Wisconsin restaurant, accuses restaurant managers of posting racist imagery and then firing an African-American employee after he complained.
According to a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), Dion Miller arrived for his regularly scheduled ...
An overtime and minimum wage case against Wheatfields Restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska was recently featured on KETV Omaha. Waiterpay founder Louis Pechman and Nebraska attorney Kelly Brandon are representing the servers in this litigation.
The lawsuit alleges that the restaurant ...
Pier Sixty has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle the overtime and tip misappropriation claims of its servers, according to court documents filed in federal court last week. Approximately 2,500 workers will share in the settlement.
The Complaint against Pier Sixty, ...
Kefi, a popular Upper West Side Greek restaurant owned by Food Network celebrity Michael Psilakis, has been sued by its waitstaff for wage theft, overtime, and minimum wage violations.
The Complaint alleges that restaurant management regularly cut the hours of their bussers, runners, baristas, ...
A former manager of Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House, a restaurant co-owned by Paula Deen, has filed a lawsuit against the celebrity cook, accusing her of condoning an atmosphere of sexual harassment and race discrimination in her restaurant. The Savannah-based oyster house is co-owned ...
Tipped service workers at Mario Batali’s eight New York City restaurants, including Babbo, Bar Jamon, Casa Mono, Del Posto, Esca, Lupa, Otto, and Tarry Lodge, have settled their wage and hour class and collective action for $5,250,000, according to a stipulation filed in ...
Hurricane Grill and Wings restaurant in Royal Palm Beach, Florida will pay $200,000 to settle a class sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of the restaurant’s waitresses, according to a Consent Decree ...
A recent article in the New York Times, Speed, Tips and Fear on Wheels, detailed the difficult working conditions of restaurant delivery workers in New York. There happen to be very specific requirements under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the New York State Labor Law as to how delivery persons ...
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman yesterday announced the resolution of an investigation of Veranda, a restaurant and lounge in Manhattan that underpaid approximately 25 workers and terminated two employees who questioned the company’s illegal pay practices. As part of the settlement with ...
The Tilted Kilt, a Celtic-themed bar and restaurant featuring scantily dressed waitresses, has been sued for sexual harassment by its workers.
Lawyers for the women claim that one of the owners bragged about his sexual exploits, attempted to kiss and grab the women, and licked, ...
A lawsuit against Wheatfield’s Eatery and Bakery, a restaurant with three locations in Omaha, Nebraska, has been given the go-ahead to move forward as a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Magistrate Judge Thomas Thalken’s Findings and Recommendation noted that the Complaint contended that the restaurant utilized a compensation scheme that ...
A grill cook at a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant in Huntington, Long Island has accused the restaurant and a co-worker of unlawful sexual harassment.
Kyle Desiro, who worked as a grill cook in the “back line” of the restaurant, claims that another grill cook would ...
Uncle George’s Restaurant, a popular Greek restaurant in Astoria, has been sued for minimum wage, tip and overtime violations. Lawyers for a waiter who worked for the restaurant for four years claim that the restaurant failed to pay its servers any hourly wages. In other words, the waitstaff worked for tips alone, and even those ...
A lawsuit alleging that Café Centro failed to pay its waiters and waitresses properly in regard to tips, overtime, service charges, and spread of hours premium has been permitted to move forward to class action certification.
In an Award dated February 6, 2012, Arbitrator Bonnie ...
Servers at Megu restaurant have filed a lawsuit claiming that the upscale Japanese restaurant violated various federal and state law pay requirements.
Lawyers for the workers claim that the restaurant improperly forced waiters and waitresses to share their tips with sushi chefs who had no ...