Little Italy's Angelo's of Mulberry Street Facing FLSA Lawsuit

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Angelo of Mulberry Street Inc. and three individual owners are facing a proposed collective action that claims they failed to properly compensate their employees, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state law. One of the plaintiffs says he was employed as a cook at the defendants’ Italian restaurant and that he was paid a fixed weekly rate in cash that never varied with the number of hours he worked. He claims he often worked more than 60 hours per week, but did not receive proper overtime compensation for the hours he worked above 40.

The other plaintiff alleges that he worked for Angelo’s as a busboy and was not compensated at all besides the tips he received from customers. He argues that he spent more than 20% of his day performing non-tipped duties and that the defendants were required to pay him the full minimum wage as a result.

The suit claims the defendants had no system in place for recording employees’ hours worked and that they failed to provide the workers with wage statements that detailed this information and their rates of pay.