Theodore Roosevelt “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Operators of three Asian-style buffet restaurants in Lake Worth, Pembroke Pines and Plantation, Fla., have agreed to pay back wages of $233,234 to 55 current and former low-wage employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.
Payments include $97,231 to12 employees at New China Buffet (Lake Worth), $58,849 to 18 [...]
El Atlacatl Restaurant agreed to pay $50,717 in back wages to 39 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that the Miami eatery had failed to ensure employees received the federal minimum wage and overtime payments required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Investigators discovered that employees were paid a daily [...]
Employers are required to pay workers for overtime and other wages in accordance with state and federal law. Employers who avoid paying their employees fairly are probably more common than you might expect. If you have experienced any of the following, your wages have probably been underpaid:
You have been denied overtime pay because it was [...]