Now here’s a company that seems to believe in the old adage: “If you’re going to break one rule, you might as well break them all.”
A chain of Mexican restaurants in North Carolina will pay a total of $511,745 in back wages to 125 employees for violations of the FLSA.
“The restaurant industry employs some of our country’s lowest-paid workers, who are often vulnerable to disparate treatment and wage violations. Failure to pay these workers the wages they have worked long hours to earn hurts them and their families, and it provides a competitive advantage over law-abiding employers. Enforcement actions like these should motivate all North Carolina restaurant owners to follow the law and provide a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work to all employees,” Richard Blaylock, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division’s Raleigh district director, said in a press release
