Subway Restaurant Franchise in Manhattan Pays for Wage Violations, Retaliatory Firing

The operator of a Subway restaurant franchise in Manhattan’s Decrease East Facet who the Division of Labor mentioned fired an worker throughout its investigation has paid damages to the worker and again pay to 18 staff, the division’s wage and hour division reported.

The wage and hour investigators mentioned they discovered that NPK Meals Inc., which operates the Subway franchise at 334 Grand St., violated the anti-retaliation provisions of the Truthful Labor Requirements Act (FLSA) when it pressured one worker to signal a doc falsely claiming there have been no violations, they’d been paid in full, and there had been no threats or poor therapy. The employer additionally instructed the worker to return any again wage cost to the employer, then later fired the worker.

The division mentioned the employer additionally violated federal minimal wage, time beyond regulation and recordkeeping necessities by not compensating staff for coaching time, paying some staff straight time for all hours labored, and failing to maintain correct data of the entire hours labored by staff.

Based on the division, to resolve its violations, NPK Meals has paid the previous worker $10,000 in punitive damages and paid $3,907 in again wages and liquidated damages to 18 staff. The restoration compensates all 18 staff denied the required minimal wage and three staff who didn’t obtain the time beyond regulation wages they earned, in response to officers.

“Requiring staff to mislead federal investigators isn’t and will by no means be a situation of employment,” mentioned District Director Jorge R. Alvarez in New York.

The FLSA requires that almost all staff within the U.S. be paid a minimum of the federal minimal wage for all hours labored and time beyond regulation pay at not lower than time and one-half the required fee of pay for all hours labored over 40 in a workweek. It additionally prohibits employers from firing or taking opposed motion towards staff for exercising their rights.

Supply: U.S. Division of Labor Wage and Hour Division