Central Park Boathouse Accused of Underpaying Tipped Employees

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A proposed class and collective action has been filed against Central Park Boathouse, LLC and an individual with control of the business claiming the parties underpaid their employees. The plaintiff in the case says he worked as a server between 2011 and 2015 and was paid at a tip-credited rate of $6.70 per hour at the end of his employment, which the suit notes was below New York's state minimum wage at the time. The lawsuit argues that the defendants were not eligible to apply a tip credit to the man’s wages for the “many shifts during which Plaintiff spent more than 20% of his time performing non-tipped side-work,” including preparing the restaurant before it opened. On top of the alleged minimum wage violations, the complaint claims the defendants denied their tipped employees proper time-and-a-half overtime wages for all the hours they worked over 40 each week.