Restaurant Pays $208,642 in FLSA Case
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Friday, September 7, 2018 |
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Taqueria Chapala Jalisco restaurant – based in San Antonio, Texas – has paid $208,642 to 69 employees to resolve violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) minimum wage, overtime, and recordkeeping requirements found at four of its locations during a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation.
WHD investigators found the employer paid employees flat amounts per day without regard of the number of hours they actually worked in a workweek. This practice resulted in overtime violations when kitchen and wait staff worked up to 60 hours per week without overtime pay. In some instances, the employees worked so many hours that the day rates failed to meet the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. The employer also failed to maintain time records for these employees, violating the FLSA's recordkeeping provisions.
Taqueria Chapala Jalisco cooperated fully with the investigation and has taken steps to comply with the federal regulations going forward.
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