Tampa sushi restaurant shorted workers’ pay by $150,000
The United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recently found a local Tampa restaurant in violation of overtime laws and awarded the worker a combined $150,749.00 in damages. Some of the workers were making less than $6 per hour which is well below the $8.05 minimum wage in Florida. The Federal minimum wage is $7.25. It was also discovered that a kitchen manager was being paid $230 per week and, according to Federal laws, should have been paid a minimum of $684 per week or at least $23,600
