Wage theft

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.

Former servers at Jongro BBQ in NYC have sued in federal court, claiming that the restaurants for several wage theft violations.

Tip pools have proved a controversial topic, especially “nontraditional” tip pools which include non-tipped occupations such as kitchen staff.

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

The United States Department of Labor has recovered nearly $200,000 in unpaid wages and damages for dozens of employees of a Freeport Pizzeria.

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

Rosati's Pizza Restaurants pay $250,000 for cheating employees out of their overtime pay.