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Bay Space restaurant chain fined $550,000 for denying additional time pay, violating youngster labor legal guidelines

userJuly 12, 2023

BURLINGAME – The operator of Bay Space restaurant chain Crepevine has been fined greater than half one million {dollars} for denying additional time pay to 114 staff and violating federal youngster labor legal guidelines, in response to the U.S. Division of Labor.

An investigation by the division’s Wage and Hour Division discovered Suleiman Fakhouri & Sons didn’t pay staff additional time correctly at places in Berkeley, Burlingame, Oakland, Palo Alto and San Jose, the division mentioned in information launch Tuesday.

The division additionally found minors had been assigned to work later and longer than youngster labor legal guidelines allow, in response to the division.

The investigation recovered $234,636 in again wages and an equal quantity in liquidated damages. The division mentioned Suleiman Fakhouri & Sons was additionally fined $82,706 for the “willful nature” of the violations, bringing the whole to $551,978.

The violations included failing to mix hours workers labored at multiple location; paying additional time hours labored in money at straight-time charges, when time and one-half is required; and permitting 14- and 15-year-old workers to work previous 7 p.m., greater than three hours on faculty nights and greater than 18 hours throughout faculty weeks.

“The onus is on employers to make sure their workers are paid totally and that staff obtain the entire protections they’re due,” mentioned Wage and Hour Division District Director Susana Blanco.

Along with the places listed within the investigation, Suleiman Fakhouri & Sons function Crepevine eating places in Mountain View, San Francisco, San Rafael and Santa Rosa.