Lawsuit Against Vero Beach Inn Rattles Off List of Alleged Wage and Hour Violations
Last Updated on May 8, 2018
Hopson v. The Vero Beach Inn, Llc et al
Filed: April 13, 2018 ◆§ 2:18cv14134
Alleged Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations are the focus of a lawsuit filed against the Vero Beach Inn.
Alleged Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations are the focus of a lawsuit filed against the Vero Beach Inn and a general manager by a former employee who claims she’s owed unpaid wages and was fired in retaliation for not being a “team player.”
The plaintiff claims the defendants violated the FLSA’s tip credit provision by not allowing wait staff to keep all earned tips. Moreover, the lawsuit alleges the defendants:
- Did not pay the plaintiff all credit card tips “on many occasions”;
- Illegally docked servers’ pay when customers failed to pay a bill;
- Paid wait staff at a tip-credited rate for mandatory one- or two-hour staff meetings;
- Paid the plaintiff and similarly situated workers Paid Time Off at the lower tip-credited rate; and
- Paid employees holiday wages at the lower tip-credited rate.
Further, the case alleges the Vero Beach Inn failed to pay tipped employees at one and one-half times the minimum wage rate (minus the tip credit amount) for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a given workweek.
Rounding out the lawsuit is the plaintiff’s claim that she was ultimately fired in retaliation for complaining about the above-described wage practices.
“Since [the plaintiff] complained every time she was paid incorrectly, she was told she was not a ‘team player’ and was determined to be a problematic employee,” according to the lawsuit.
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