The Labor Department said the owner tried to hide the denied pay with 'false records.'
The owner of a chain of Thai food restaurants in Los Angeles is set to pay dozens of workers $1.65 million in back wages and damages after investigators found they were not paid for working overtime, thePrapai Boonyindee intentionally denied overtime pay to 83 workers across six Ocha Classic Restaurant and one Vim Restaurant location, and tried to hide it by creating “false records,” according to the labor department.
The case was ultimately settled by an administrative order between Boonyindee and the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division, an agency spokesperson said. Krispy Kreme said it disagreed with the labor department’s findings that it paid workers overtime hours below the legal rate, but opted to settle the case it the “best interests of its business.” Krispy Kreme to pay $1.2 million settlement to 516 staffers over not issuing wage bonusesJay’s Kitchen, an Asian fusion restaurant in Goldsboro, North Carolina, had to pay nearly $160,000 to its workers.
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