Ex-Employee Sues Canton House for Allegedly Unpaid OT Wages, Retaliation

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A former employee is behind a proposed collective action in which he alleges restaurant Canton House and one individual owner failed to pay proper overtime wages pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

The plaintiff claims he worked approximately 66 hours each week as a kitchen helper at the Chamblee, Georgia eatery from May 2017 to April 2018 without appropriate compensation or uninterrupted meal or rest breaks. According to the complaint, the man received a fixed monthly salary of $4,000 regardless of the number of hours he put in.

In April 2018, the case continues, the plaintiff was supposedly terminated in retaliation after approaching the restaurant’s owner “about the failure to provide uninterrupted breaks and pay for overtime hours worked.”