Brick Lane Curry House Facing Unpaid Wage Allegations

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Brick Lane Curry House in New York City is staring down allegations that the operating companies behind the chain of Indian restaurants – Bricklane Curry House Too Inc. and BLCH I LLC – and their owners failed to pay workers proper wages. Filed by a former employee who claims he was ostensibly hired as a tipped delivery worker, the lawsuit claims the plaintiff’s true job duties saw him spend “several hours” each day performing non-tipped work around the restaurant unrelated to food deliveries. The lawsuit claims the defendants masked the plaintiff’s actual job duties in payroll records, accounting for him as a delivery worker, to pay him at a impermissibly lower tip-credited rate. As such, the lawsuit alleges, the defendants violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and New York labor law by failing to pay the plaintiff (and other, similarly situated workers) proper time-and-a-half overtime and spread-of-hours wages.