Meyer’s Family Restaurant Pays More Than $116,000 in Back Wages
The restaurant paid the back wages to 38 employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Meyer’s Family Restaurant, 4260 S. 76th St., has agreed to pay $116,102 in back wages to 38 employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that disclosed violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime pay and record-keeping provisions. The investigation, conducted primarily in Spanish by bilingual wage and hour investigators, determined Meyer’s failed to compensate workers with overtime pay at time and one-half their regular rates of pay for hours worked beyond 40 in a week, as required by the FLSA. The company also failed to record all hours worked by employees, paid cash for some hours, and kept no record of those hours worked, the cash payments made, or the tips received, according …
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Leah Fleischman
11:53 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Working as a waitress I know how much the hourly wage sucks so i would want my overtime paid too. Glad to hear they got reimbursed for their hard work. more ›