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Fitapelli & Schaffer filed a collective action lawsuit against Uncle George’s Greek Tavern in Astoria, New York for failing to pay minimum wage, overtime and spread of hours to tipped employees and kitchen workers over the past three years.\u00a0 Unfortunately, these violations are commonplace at restaurants in New York City.\u00a0 Employees should be aware that they may be entitled to double damages for wage violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fitapelli & Schaffer filed a collective action lawsuit against Uncle George’s Greek Tavern in Astoria, New York for failing to pay minimum wage, overtime and spread of hours to tipped employees and kitchen workers over the past three years.\u00a0 Unfortunately, these violations are commonplace at restaurants in New York City.\u00a0 Employees should be aware that they may be entitled to double damages for wage violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,1,22,25,24,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-action","category-employment-law","category-flsa-2","category-gratuities","category-minimum-wage-2","category-overtime-2"],"yoast_head":"\nUNCLE GEORGE'S GREEK TAVERN LAWSUIT - 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