20 Delivery Workers Hit Hu Kitchen Operators with Unpaid Wage Lawsuit

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Twenty current and former delivery workers have put their names on a proposed collective action against Hu Holdings LLC, which does business as vegetarian eatery Hu Kitchen in New York City, and three individuals with operational control over the company. The plaintiffs’ 73-page complaint alleges the defendants have not paid them or similarly situated workers the appropriate hourly minimum wage, or, for that matter, paid the workers properly for “any hours worked at the straight rate of pay.”

The case claims the defendants’ allegedly illegal wage practices stem from a policy of unlawfully appropriating proposed collective members’ tips, and those of other tipped employees, and making unlawful deductions from workers’ wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).