Yet Another Restaurant Assessed Back Wages
Posted on 16-Jul-07 by The Timekeeper
You know, it’s getting downright depressing. Yet another restaurant has been assessed hefty back wages — in this case, over $123,000 — for failing to keep adequate time and attendance records and failing to pay overtime for time worked over 40 hours per week. This time around, the culprits are 10 La Casita Mexican restaurants in the Coachella Valley in California.
Okay, I get it. The restaurant biz is cutthroat. Margins are slim. Managers are squeezing every penny. But fer cryin’ out loud, if you can’t afford pay your employees according to the law and turn a profit at the same time, then you aren’t really running a profitable business. Maybe you should consider a different line of work.
What especially pains me, as someone who works in the time and attendance industry, is the charge by the U.S. DOL, Wage and Hour Division, that the owners didn’t properly record the hours of work for their wait staff, bussers, hosts and cooks.
Come on, people! You can get a bit of software for less than $100 that would do that job for you. If you prefer a punch clock with time cards and everything, check eBay or some of the shopping comparison sites. You’ll find plenty available for less than $200. Compare that against $123,000 in back wages and fines. The expenditure of a couple of hundred on a clock starts to look pretty darned reasonable by contrast, eh?
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