NEW YORK CITY — A group of 19-banquet hall caterers recently settled an unpaid overtime lawsuit for $50,000 with their employer, Bridgeview Yacht Club in Nassau County, New York. The bartenders and waitstaff making up the group of plaintiffs claim their wages were improperly calculated for a six-year period. Investigators claim some of the plaintiffs […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two waitresses at a Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Columbia, South Carolina have just received a Texas-sized settlement for themselves and other similarly situated employees employed by the chain in the amount of $700,000.
MONTE RIO, Calif. — Hundreds of current and former seasonal workers for an ultra-exclusive country club in Monte Rio, California recently settled an unpaid overtime lawsuit which could net each plaintiff approximately $8,000.
ANCHORAGE — Although a lower court ruled in favor of two Lower 48 employers who mandated employee tip pools, a recent ruling from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could overturn that decision and lead to Alaskan workers receiving more tips than ever before, according to KTVA Alaska.
Former employees of Spartanburg restaurant Wild Wing Cafe have filed a lawsuit against the restaurant claiming that they were withheld wages through failure to meet minimum and overtime wage standards, according to The State.
DETROIT — in 2016, a class action lawsuit on behalf of Red Robin hourly servers was filed alleging that tipped workers were required to take part in a tipping pool with non-tipped employees. These allegations include a complaint that servers were forced to share 1% of their gross sales with non-tipped employees at the end of shifts.