Wage and Hour
Hana Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Bar, headquartered in New Llano (LA) has agreed to pay 135 servers and chefs $114,978 in back wages after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s ...
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A group of McDonald’s restaurants in Syracuse, Liverpool and other locations in upstate New York have been accused of “time shaving” the pay of employees, according to a class action
complaint filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of ...
The New York State Attorney General is investigating whether fast food restaurants have cheated their workers out of wages, according to a report in the
New York Times. Eric T. Schneiderman, the Attorney General, is examining whether certain ...
An ongoing enforcement initiative conducted by the U.S. Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, which focused on full-service restaurants in Florida, has found widespread violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage, overtime and child labor provisions, according to a press release ...
Peter Luger Steak House has been sued by four former waiters for minimum wage, overtime and tip shaving violations. The lawsuit, which was filed as a class action, alleges that the Great Neck location of the restaurant, which is consistently ranked as the ...
In an important decision supporting the rights of undocumented workers for protection under the labor laws, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that undocumented aliens could recover overtime wages due to them under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The court, in
Lamonica v. Safe Hurricane Shutters, Inc., rejected the employer’s argument that two ...
Assistant Managers at Five Guys have filed a class action alleging that the burger restaurants’ California locations have failed to pay them overtime.
The class action
lawsuit was filed in California state court. The lawsuit alleges that the restaurants improperly classified them as ...
A group of 15 Boston-area restaurants and their owners, Patrick Lyons and Edward Sparks, have agreed to pay $424,000 to 409 employees to resolve alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) identified by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Investigations by ...
Philippe restaurants on Long Island and Manhattan have been hit with a class action
lawsuit by servers and bartenders who complain that they have been denied minimum wage and overtime pay and that the restaurants improperly took a tip credit under the ...
The United States Department of Labor is targeting Long Island restaurants, charging close to 100 restaurants on Long Island with minimum wage and overtime violations in the last year, according to a
Newsday article dated February 24. Chateau ...
The minimum wage and overtime lawsuit against Chickie’s & Pete’s has been expanded to include all of its restaurant locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The filing of the Amended Complaint was reported in
CBS Philadelphia and
Metro ...
A program on “How to Handle a Wage and Hour Case” will be held at the New York County Lawyers’ Association on January 31, 2013. Faculty for the program are Terri Gerstein, the Labor Bureau Chief, New York State Attorney General’s Office; Justin Swartz, attorney with Outten & Golden LLP; and Noel Tripp, attorney ...
A former waitress and bartender at T.G.I. Friday’s in Manhattan has brought a class action lawsuit against the restaurant’s parent company, The Riese Organization, for minimum wage, overtime, and unlawful deductions.
Cisse Diombera filed suit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of ...
An overtime class action
lawsuit was filed in New York federal court alleging that assistant managers at Chipotle restaurants were improperly classified as “exempt” employees under the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA).
Lawyers for the workers claim that the popular chain restaurant did not ...
A Florida based Domino's Pizza franchisee has paid 401 employees $371,675 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, which found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime, minimum wage and record-keeping provisions.
Investigators from the ...
In an important worker rights
decision, United States Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis held that a worker at Da Ciro restaurant in New York did not have to return to New York from his home country of Ecuador to appear at a deposition ...
A $3.55 million
settlement in a wage pay lawsuit was approved by a federal court judge in California on October 4. The lawsuit claimed that KFC failed to provide its California employees meals and rest breaks and required the ...
Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center has agreed to pay 429 service employees working at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, $204,329 after U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division filed a lawsuit against the hotel for ...
On September 13, New York federal court Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis approved a $5.25 million dollar settlement between current and former tipped service workers and Mario Batali’s eight New York City restaurants: Babbo, Bar Jamon, Casa Mono, Del Posto, Esca, Lupa, Otto, and ...
An ongoing enforcement initiative conducted by the U.S. Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, which focused on full-service restaurants in Florida, has found widespread violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage, overtime and child labor provisions, according to a press release ...
Peter Luger Steak House has been sued by four former waiters for minimum wage, overtime and tip shaving violations. The lawsuit, which was filed as a class action, alleges that the Great Neck location of the restaurant, which is consistently ranked as the ...
Assistant Managers at Five Guys have filed a class action alleging that the burger restaurants’ California locations have failed to pay them overtime.
The class action lawsuit was filed in California state court. The lawsuit alleges that the restaurants improperly classified them as ...
Philippe restaurants on Long Island and Manhattan have been hit with a class action lawsuit by servers and bartenders who complain that they have been denied minimum wage and overtime pay and that the restaurants improperly took a tip credit under the ...
A former waitress and bartender at T.G.I. Friday’s in Manhattan has brought a class action lawsuit against the restaurant’s parent company, The Riese Organization, for minimum wage, overtime, and unlawful deductions.
Cisse Diombera filed suit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of ...
An overtime class action lawsuit was filed in New York federal court alleging that assistant managers at Chipotle restaurants were improperly classified as “exempt” employees under the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA).
Lawyers for the workers claim that the popular chain restaurant did not ...
A Florida based Domino's Pizza franchisee has paid 401 employees $371,675 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, which found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime, minimum wage and record-keeping provisions.
Investigators from the ...
In an important worker rights decision, United States Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis held that a worker at Da Ciro restaurant in New York did not have to return to New York from his home country of Ecuador to appear at a deposition ...