Minimum wage

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.

Paul Michael’s Brick Oven Café, a popular Richmond Hill, New York pizzeria restaurant, has paid $110,000 in unpaid overtime to a former pizza maker.

Subway is notorious for its employee violations, having faced more than 1,100 investigations spanning from 2000 to 2013 according to the Department of Labor.

Stoneacre Group has allegedly failed to pay its employees overtime and minimum wage, misclassified workers, and illegally included managers in tip pools.

A Connecticut Court issued a $1.3 million judgment last week against Chip's Family Restaurant chain for violating tip and minimum wage law.