FL Hair Salon The Met, Owner Hit with Wage and Hour Lawsuit

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A Sarasota County, Florida man formerly employed as a stylist assistant by The Met, LLC alleges in a proposed class action that the fashion house and day spa/salon and its owner owe unpaid overtime, as well as failed to keep proper time records of employees’ work hours. According to the complaint, the plaintiff, from a period between July 2015 and March 2017, was not paid time-and-a-half hourly wages for all hours worked past 40 each workweek.

The plaintiff asserts he informed the defendants on several occasions that he was not being paid appropriate overtime. The case notes an incident in which the plaintiff brought up to a spa manager that he was owed overtime, to which the man was reportedly told he was an exempt employee not entitled to time-and-a-half wages. From here, it got considerably messier, the case says:

“According to [the plaintiff], on the date of [his] termination, [the plaintiff] was warned by [the individual defendant] not to ‘come for him,’ or ‘it’s going to get ugly;' According to [the plaintiff], [the individual defendant] went on to say that he would ‘dig, and dig hard’ if the plaintiff were to take action after his termination.”