By Adam Lidgett, Law360 (September 19, 2019) — The operators of a trio of Manhattan Thai restaurants have agreed to pay $3.68 million to settle a suit claiming they flouted the Fair Labor Standards Act and New York state law by not properly paying a group of workers overtime and minimum wage.
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The two settlement classes would cover cooks, cashiers, bussers and delivery people who worked for the restaurants in New York anytime since April 8, 2008, and any worker who opted into the collective action before April 8, 2017, according to a Wednesday memorandum in support of their bid for deal approval.
The suit said that employees often worked more than 40 hours a week, but weren’t properly paid time and a half overtime when they did, and that workers also weren’t properly paid a minimum wage. Additionally, the plaintiffs said that workers were not paid a “spread of hours” premium — an extra minimum-wage hour for days when a plaintiff worked over 10 hours.
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–Editing by Nicole Bleier.
The article first appeared on Law360 at: https://www.law360.com/articles/1200564/thai-restaurants-ink-3-7m-deal-to-end-wage-ot-suit