00:00$10 a week? That's what one Ohio restaurant allegedly paid its servers.
00:05The Department of Labor says Waucian Ohio restaurant Los Mariachis forced servers who worked an average of 60 hours a
00:12week to cash paychecks and then pay their wages back to owner Ruben Lopez in cash.
00:17According to the DOL investigation, the workers were allowed to keep just the tips they earned, plus $20 in each
00:24two-week pay period.
00:25The division's investigation recovered $245,509 in back wages for six servers and 12 cooks at Los Mariachis, along with
00:36Lopez's commitment to comply immediately with federal wage laws.
00:41The FLSA requires the payment of at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
00:47Employers are also required to pay overtime at time and one-half of a worker's average hourly rate of pay,
00:54plus incentive pay such as bonuses, shift differential, and longevity pay.
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