Restaurant forced servers to cash paychecks -- then took all but $20 of it, feds say

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Servers at a Mexican restaurant in Ohio worked for only $10 a week in addition to tips left by customers, according to federal authorities. Meanwhile, officials say the cooks worked 60 hours a week without any overtime pay.

Now the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has recovered $245,509 in back wages for six servers and 12 cooks who worked for Los Mariachis amid the labor violations, according to a Feb. 14 news release.

Los Mariachis LLC, based in Wauseon, did not provide a comment to McClatchy News regarding the division’s investigation.

Federal authorities said the servers at Los Mariachis worked an average of 60 hours a week. Every two weeks, they’d be forced to cash their full paycheck, then return all but $20 in pay, according to the release.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/restaurant-forced-servers-to-cash-paychecks-then-took-all-but-20-of-it-feds-say/ar-AA17wrh0

[Bristlecone]

1. Boy does this smell of "Nobody wants to work anymore" owners

and managers posting signs in windows and crying they can’t get people to work for them.


*iphone typo

[Marcus IM]

2. Just like the Social Security going bankrupt BS

Just raise the cap.

[MichMan]

3. Why would they continue working there?

Restaurant jobs are available everywhere

[roamer65]

4. I would bet the employees were not American citizens.

Probably here on work visas or no documents at all.