One Shot Coffee, a Northern Liberties cafe, stole $1,200 in tips from two workers, Philadelphia’s Office of Worker Protections says, and it took two years for the business to pay back one of the workers the amount owed.
The city’s enforcement was among 55 wage-theft cases the Department of Labor’s Office of Worker Protections closed last year. As a result of its investigations, the office, which enforces seven labor laws, recovered more than $180,000 for workers last year, according to a report released this month.
That includes a $24,5000 Fair Workweek settlement with Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse and paid sick-leave settlements with St. Christopher’s Hospital and Maxim Healthcare.
According to a 2015 Sheller Center for Social Justice at Temple University Law report, in any given week about 130,000 Philadelphia workers experience wage theft.
The One Shot cases show the difficulty of enforcing the city’s seven-year-old wage theft law, which was designed to make it easier for workers to take action against employers who do not pay workers what they’re owed.
In September 2020, after a worker filed a complaint, the city found One Shot had shorted that worker $424 in tips and ordered the business to make the worker whole. When One Shot did not pay the full amount and did not respond to the city’s demands for payment, the city placed the cafe on its “Bad Actors” list, which it uses to try to publicly shame employers who refuse to comply with the law.
Two years later,...
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