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Fast Food and Restaurant Workers and the FLSA
No matter what, people have to eat. And restaurant employees will always be there to serve them. There are over 7 million people employed in restaurants in the United States, a large percentage of whom work in fast food establishments. These jobs are often very transient, and the fact is that many fast food workers don’t realize…
Read MoreSkycaps’ Claim for Tips under FLSA Grounded by Eleventh Circuit
In what appears to be the first such case to reach a federal appeals court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (the federal appeals court for the federal district courts of Georgia, Florida and Alabama) recently affirmed a decision by a Miami federal district court, which held that the airlines’ practice of charging baggage handling…
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