Former Cara Mia Employee Files Suit Alleging Unpaid OT

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A former employee of Italian restaurant Cara Mia has filed suit against the restaurant’s operating company, two owners, and an executive chef. He alleges that the defendants unlawfully failed to pay him overtime wages and provide proper wage notices and statements. According to the suit, the plaintiff worked at the restaurant as a dishwasher and regularly worked more than 40 hours per week without receiving overtime compensation. From the complaint:

“[I]n an improper scheme to create false time records, [the plaintiff’s] employers made him clock out (or would not allow him to punch in) even though he was still working, such that the time records would demonstrate that he only worked forty hours a week.”

The suit further alleges that the plaintiff was not given the required wage notices at his time of hire and never received accurate paystubs that recorded his hours and rates of pay.