Wage & Overtime

Restaurant Workers

Outten & Golden attorneys represent restaurant workers in and around New York, San Francisco or Washington, DC to recover wages employers refuse to pay. Many restaurant owners demand that their servers, hostesses, and backroom employees work extremely long hours and fail to pay them lawfully. Wage abuses common in restaurants include: failing to pay restaurant workers for all hours worked; misappropriating tips; failing to pay minimum wage; and failing to pay earned overtime. 

Thanks in large part to successful wage suits brought against some of the biggest restaurant owners in the country by Outten & Golden attorneys, wage abuse is receiving the attention it deserves.*

(*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.)

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Related Cases

Jimmy Johns LLC

Status:
Resolved

Outten & Golden LLP is co-lead counsel in a consolidated class action lawsuit against Jimmy John’s Franchise, LLC and related corporate entities (“Jimmy John’s”). The lawsuit is known as In re: Jimmy John’s Overtime Litigation, No. 14 Civ. 5509, in the U.S. District Court for the...

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BNA Labor & Employment on Bloomberg Law—Jon Steingart

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thestreet.com—Amanda Schiavo

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