
In its ruling, the court found the employer willfully violated the FLSA when it failed to comply with the tip credit requirements and misused the servers’ tips to pay wages. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the restaurant and the Gunaydins to recover the back wages and liquidated damages owed. The department’s Office of the Solicitor in Philadelphia then filed a lawsuit in the U.S. The division also found the employer violated minimum wage, overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division in Philadelphia that determined the employer failed to comply with the tip credit requirements, specifically using servers’ tips to pay bussers’ wages. The action follows an investigation by the U.S.

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found Musluoglu Inc., which operates as Empire Diner owner Ihsan Gunaydin and manager Engin Gunaydin liable for $675,626.67 in back wages and an equal amount in damages owed to the affected current and former employees. 18, 2022, Judge Eduardo C. Robreno in the U.S.
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LANSDOWNE, PA – A federal court has ordered a Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, diner, and its owner and a manager to pay more than $1.35 million in back wages and liquidated damages to 107 servers and kitchen workers after a five-day trial confirmed the business operators used an illegal tip pool.
