Department of Labor found violations at two of Black's Barbecue's locations, including in...
$230,353 to hundreds of employees after the U.S. Department of Labor investigated its employment practices.. illegally gave employee tips to restaurant managers, the federal agency said.
The federal agency recovered thousands of dollars in wages for 274 workers employed at Kent Black’s Lockhart Barbecue Inc. and Black’s Barbecue New Braunfels.The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits employers, managers and supervisors from keeping tips employees receive for any reason, whether or not the employer takes a tip credit.
“Food service industry employers must know that tips are the property of tipped employees who earn them, plain and simple,” Nicole Sellers, wage and hour division district director, said in a statement. “Workers and their families depend on their rightfully earned wages and benefits. If you take from them, you take from their families.”Black’s Barbecue Inc. and Kent Black’s Lockhart Barbecue Inc. have operated for three generations in Texas.
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