PITTSBURGH — A Vienna restaurant was one of three impacted by a recent federal ruling regarding employee pay. Following litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor Office of the Solicitor, a federal court has entered a consent judgment against three restaurants in Pennsylvania and West Virginia — including one in Vienna — after investigators found they paid back-of-the-house employees off-the-books salaries for all hours worked and denied them overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a work-week. The judgment entered in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on March 16 requires Fusion Japanese Steakhouse Inc. in Washington, Pa., Fusion Japanese Steakhouse Inc. in Vienna, and Z&S International Cuisine Inc. operating as Fusion Japanese Steakhouse of Wheeling in Triadelphia, W.Va., and owners Yuan Zheng Xiao and Christine Xiao, to pay $1.45 million, comprised of $725,000 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages, to 116 current and former workers. The department also assessed the restaurants and their owners $76,724 in civil penalties for the willful nature of their violations. The employers’ pay practices and failure to maintain records of hours worked violated the Fair Labor Standards Act. In addition to the back wages and damages, the judgment prohibits the employers from future violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. On three prior occasions following investigations in 2012, 2011 and 2010, the restaurants and owner Yuan...
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