A Montgomery County pizzeria has reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor in which the restaurant will pay $271,205 in back wages, damages and penalties for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The settlement agreement, filed on Sept. 1 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, resolves a complaint filed by Julie Su, the Department of Labor's acting secretary of labor, on Aug. 29 against College Pizza Inc. and its owners Dimitrios Efthimiou and Stravos Efthimiou. College Pizza, which operates as Olympia Pizzeria, is located at 209 W. Germantown Pike in Norristown. The Department of Labor alleged that the restaurant violated overtime, minimum wage and child labor law provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to court filings.
As part of the agreement, Olympia Pizzeria has agreed to pay $252,579 in back wages and liquidated damages to 21 employees for unpaid overtime wages, a Department of Labor release says. It will also pay $18,626 in civil money penalties, $14,360 of which is for the overtime violations and $4,266 of which is for the child labor violations.
The settlement follows a federal investigation by the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division that found that Olympia Pizzeria purposefully denied its kitchen workers time and one-half pay for the hours they worked beyond the standard 40-hour workweek. The missed overtime payments were allegedly incurred from March 1, 2020 through Feb....
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