December 12, 2025
Two Massachusetts eateries have agreed to pay a total of $225,000 to resolve the government's allegations that they failed to pay workers for overtime hours and tried to prevent them from speaking with U.S. Department of Labor representatives investigating possible labor violations, according to a consent judgment entered Friday in federal court.
January 31, 2024
A Massachusetts federal court issued an order Wednesday restraining a pair of jointly operated restaurants from retaliating against workers looking to assert their Fair Labor Standards Acts rights to representatives of the U.S. Department of Labor.
December 04, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor took two Massachusetts restaurants to court Monday, alleging they hadn't paid their kitchen staff overtime wages despite a $250,000 settlement over similar allegations in 2020.