Action against a Hooters restaurant in Trussville in offsetting the server and the exchange of advice

A lawsuit claims the Hooters restaurant in Trussville violated federal labor laws for servers shared tips with other employees do not wait. The complaint also, not enough servers to perform the cleaning or preparation paid work when customers were not present.

The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in Birmingham on January 6, Brooke Pearman, a server on June 21, 2009 July 21, 2014, and Jodi Lee Brooke, who works in the restaurant since May 2011 as a server brought a control.

The lawsuit alleges Hooters of Trussville, LLC of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks back wages and overtime for the rest two women and other servers that use the restaurant.

A manager Hooter Monday that questions about the study at the registered office of the company in Atlanta. Efforts to contact someone at headquarters fails before the publication of this story.

"For more than three years prior to the filing of the application, the defendant (the restaurant) had a policy and practice of the staff applies in part to participate uniform edges," according to the lawsuit.

Among the hand tip waiters required to have a portion of their income from tip "personal Guys" that contribute to work in the kitchen, cleaning the dishes, taking out the trash from the place a restaurant, and sometimes repopulation of ice and not directly with customers interact, suits States.

The servers were paid an hourly wage of $ 2.13 per hour, but were forced to attend meetings prior to the movement and the work without tip-production-cleaning and preparation, including washing windows, cleaning tables, chairs and baseboards, and make ready spices and accessories for changes.

"The plaintiff and other employees in the same situation have much time --in more than 20% of their time spent - to carry out activities outside of peak production, such as the meeting before jumping Home displacement during peak work and the work of after the change journey, "the study says.

The lawsuit says that the servers have minimum wages and time on tasks that do not produce peak spent to pay.

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