A Boston-area restaurant chain has paid 67 employees $119,046 in back wages
to settle allegations that it violated the overtime and recordkeeping provisions
of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), according to the Department of Labor.
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Download NowInvestigators form the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) said
that Cambridge-based Boca Grande, which owns and operates the Boston Burrito,
Cambridge Burrito, and Brookline Burrito restaurants in those communities, failed
to pay overtime wages to employees between August 2001 and August 2003. In addition,
the department accused the restaurant chain of failing to maintain adequate
payroll records.
The restaurants had employed the same workers at multiple locations without
combining the hours worked at each location, according to the department. The
employees were paid straight time for the hours worked at each location, when
they should have received overtime for the hours worked over 40 in a single
work week.
The department says the company cooperated fully with WHD and paid the back
wages to its employees.