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Canlis, a famous Seattle restaurant, settled a wage theft class action lawsuit filed by its servers for $1.45 million dollars.

75% of Waffle House workers reported that they had “been required to perform job tasks before clocking in or after clocking out.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), an employer is permitted to pay tipped employees $2.13 per hour in direct wages.

Love Meat Korean BBQ, a popular Korean restaurant in Stamford, Connecticut, has been sued by the Department of Labor for multiple FLSA violations.

The D.C Attorney General has announced that Swahili Village M Street, a Kenyan fine-dining restaurant widely known as “the Consulate,” must pay $526,972.

Department of Labor investigators determined that the IHOP Restaurants owed approximately $367,890 and also assessed a civil money penalty of $199,577.

The US Department of Labor has been cracking down on compliance recently, closing a series of cases this month against restaurants for wage theft.

Japanese restaurant in Georgia required to pay over $300,000 for wage theft violations in Georgia.

Tipping has become a controversial topic in America. UpgradedPoints recently posted an article diving into recent trends on tipping culture in the United States