The US Department of Labor secured a federal consent judgment requiring four Washington-based Rancho Chico restaurants to pay $750,000 in back wages and damages to 42 workers after an investigation found minimum wage, overtime, and child labor violations, as well as unlawful retaliation against an employee who filed a wage complaint, the DOL announced.
The investigation by the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division found that the owners, Nolberto and Guillermina Rodríguez, failed to pay employees overtime at time and one-half their regular rate for hours worked over 40 in a week, paid some employees a salary that resulted in earnings ...