A Florida restaurant forced servers to work "for tips alone" by not paying them wages, the DOL said.
Rosy's Mexican Restaurant also didn't give other staff an overtime premium, the DOL said.
It violated child-labor laws by letting a minor work late during a school week, per the DOL.
A Florida restaurant didn't pay wages to servers, forcing them to work "for tips alone," a US Department of Labor investigation found.
E & E Quezada Food Services, operator of Rosy's Mexican Restaurant in Jacksonville, "failed to pay its servers any wages, forcing them to rely on customer tips as their sole compensation," the labor department said in a press release Wednesday.
Rosy's also failed to pay dishwashers, cooks, and some servers an overtime premium when they worked more than 40 hours in a week, according to the DOL. It also didn't keep accurate payroll or shift records.
The DOL said that the restaurant owed 10 workers a combined $118,042 in back wages and liquidated damages.
"By denying servers a cash wage and forcing them to live on tips alone and denying other workers their overtime pay, Rosy's Mexican Restaurant made it harder for these employees, who depend on every dollar, to take care of themselves and their families," Wildalí De Jesús, director at the Orlando office of the DOL's Wage and Hour Division, said in the press release.
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