GREER, S.C. —
A restaurant chain in Greenville, South Carolina, will have to pay employees back pay after the Department of Labor said the company denied overtime pay.
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Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found that Tipsy Holding II LLC failed to pay the half-time premium to cooks, servers and bar employees for hours over 40 in a workweek, an overtime violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The employer also failed to keep accurate records for workers, DOL says.
The Department said they recovered $567,079 for 215 workers at the following locations:
“As food service industry employers struggle to find people to fill the jobs needed to remain competitive, they should remember that keeping and finding workers is harder for employers who don’t respect workers’ rights and shortchange them of their full wages,” said Wage and Hour Division district director Jamie Benefiel in Columbia, South Carolina. “Overtime violations are common in the restaurant industry, but they shouldn’t be. There are more than enough resources available to employers to help them understand their obligations to employees under the law.”
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