Mario Batali has settled a putative class and collective action lawsuit covering his restaurants in New York.\u00a0 The lawsuit covers tipped employees who worked for the restaurants over the past six years.\u00a0 The bulk of the settlement deals with tip misappropriation under New York State Law.\u00a0 The lawsuit alleged that Batali’s restaurants deducted the equivalent of 4-5% of each shift’s wine and beverage sales from the tip pool.\u00a0 In essence, the deduction amounted to stealing tips from the tipped employees such as waiters, bussers and runners.\u00a0 The $5 million settlement appears to be the largest unpaid wages settlement against a group of restaurants.\u00a0 Tip misappropriation is common in New York City restaurants, as tipped employees routinely have to tip-out managers and other non-tip eligible employees such as silver polishers, expediters, cooks and dishwashers.\u00a0 If you are a restaurant worker who has not been paid properly, please call our firm for a free consultation.<\/p>\n
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Mario Batali has settled a putative class and collective action lawsuit covering his restaurants in New York.\u00a0 The lawsuit covers tipped employees who worked for the restaurants over the past six years.\u00a0 The bulk of the settlement deals with tip misappropriation under New York State Law.\u00a0 The lawsuit alleged that Batali’s restaurants deducted the equivalent of 4-5% of each shift’s wine and beverage sales from the tip pool.\u00a0 In essence, the deduction amounted to stealing tips from the tipped employees …<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law"],"yoast_head":"\n