Covo Trattoria, Owners Facing Unpaid Wage Class Action

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Five former employees are behind a proposed class action claiming their former employer, defendant 701 W. 135^th Café Inc. (which does business as Italian restaurant Covo Trattoria), and its owners failed to pay proper minimum, overtime and spread-of-hours wages.

The plaintiffs say they were only compensated by the defendants with tips and were never paid a flat hourly tip-credit wage, much less legally acceptable time-and-a-half overtime pay or spread-of-hours wages for shifts lasting longer than 10 hours in a day. On top of the rampant non-payment of wages, the plaintiffs say they were never told that their tips were being included as an offset for wages, nor that the defendants would allegedly withhold a percentage of workers’ credit card tips.