Overtime

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered $697,295 in back wages for 60 employees following an investigation of Tank Noodle.

Gino’s Pizzeria, a popular Long Island eatery, has settled a wage theft lawsuit brought by a former kitchen worker for $94,500.

Texas Roadhouse has been hit with a class action lawsuit by assistant managers who claim they were not paid overtime.

The Department of Labor sued a Massachusetts restaurant chain, claiming it worked some employees more than 60 hours per week without paying overtime.

A jury verdict has awarded 286 Steak N’ Shake “managers” at the chain restaurant’s St. Louis, Missouri locations $2.9 million for unpaid overtime.

Sam Woo, a restaurant based in San Diego, California, will pay 18 employees $192,622 in back wages and liquidated damages for violating provisions of the FLSA.

A Manhattan judge ruled that the owner of Kum Gang San fraudulently transferred his property to his wife in order to avoid paying a wage theft judgment.

Former employees have sued the New York City location of Mission Chinese for unpaid wages and for being “a hotbed of racial discrimination.”

Pechman Law Group has filed two lawsuits against three locations of Mamoun’s Falafel in New York and New Jersey.

Roberto’s Restaurant, a famous Italian restaurant on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, was sued a food preparer for unpaid overtime compensation and spread of hours.