U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett last week conditionally certified a class action suit against the owners of Fat Daddy’s restaurants in Ocean City, alleging wage violations stemming from unpaid overtime at both resort locations.
The court will be issuing notices to workers employed at the restaurants between April 13, 2014 and April 13, 2017, allowing them to opt in to the case as part of the discovery phase. The lawsuit was filed in December.
The plaintiff, Brandon Ware, alleges that owners Edward and Lisa Braude implemented and enforced a policy of not paying overtime to employees who were regularly scheduled for more than 40 hours of work per week.
The Fair Labor Standards Act provides that, unless a business is exempt, eligible employees must receive overtime pay for any hours worked over 40 in one workweek. There is an exemption for employees of seasonal businesses, although both Fat Daddy’s locations are open year-round. Restaurants were exempt from certain provisions of the Maryland Wage and Hour Law until July 2014.
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Likely these owners are the people posting the negative comments on here about the sick time pay. Greedy business owners. They won't ever get out business.
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ReplyDelete"Likely these owners are the people posting the negative comments on here about the sick time pay. Greedy business owners. They won't ever get out business."
ReplyDeleteDo you realize how much of a moron you sound with stupid rhetoric like this? It's just ridiculous that your liberalism aka mental disease is bleeding through!
Spoken like a true republican without a pot to piss nor window to throw it out of. There are about 20 or so people in this area that have enough money to be on the GOP radar. The rest of you get nothing from being a republican. You don'e make enough money or have enough assets for it to matter who is in office. Even lowering your tax rate to 5% isn't going into a yacht or private plane ever.
ReplyDeleteHere's my take on this situation:
ReplyDelete1. The owner wants to make as much money as he can off of his business. And rightly so.
2. It is the owner that has put everything into creating this business.
3. He doesn't want to pay overtime, so he gives an option to his employee: If you want to make more money with me, I'll give you the hours (straight). If you don't want to work that much, I'll hire someone else for the extra hours, and make sure you get 40 hours.
I don't blame the owner. There's too many people willing to work and make some bucks in this town... The government need not get involved.