PROVIDENCE — More than 70 employees at Bally’s Twin River Casino Resort are accusing the company of violating federal and state fair labor laws by failing to pay them adequate overtime wages and systematically undercutting their weekly paychecks.
Three employees – Rebecca Barton, Timothy Bartholomew and Johan Tapia, all who travel to work at the Lincoln casino from Connecticut – sued the Bally’s Twin River last month in U.S. District Court, alleging the casino was willfully and repeatedly miscalculating its pay for hourly tipped workers. Dozens more employees who worked at Twin River in the past three years are seeking to join the class-action lawsuit. Those affected include dealers and servers and other tipped-based employees.
“We think there’s substantial money involved,” Chip Muller, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, said Friday.
Twin River, a state-operated casino that is privately owned, has not yet responded to the class-action lawsuit in court. Patti Doyle, a spokeswoman for Twin River, said the company declined to comment on the matter because it involves personnel and pending litigation.
According to the allegations, the employees worked more than 40 hours certain weeks, but were paid 1 times an hourly rate that fell below the required state minimum wage, which amounted to $10.10 per hour prior to January 1 and $12.25 per hour thereafter. Federal fair labor and state law require the employer to pay an hourly rate of 1...
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