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City Room: Is Your Metrocard Sending You a Secret Message?
Fork in the Road: When Restaurants Behave Badly
Grub Street New York: Aunt Suzie's Owner Spoke Against Sick Leave Before Being Busted for Wage-Dodging
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RT @fureigh: #ParkSlope restaurants exploiting and underpaying their workers. http://tiny.cc/D1LBG #Brooklyn #nyc #labor (RT @miriamyum) 12/1/2009 |
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Fucking ridiculous how they screw their restaurant staff (thanks @lzplksk) http://tinyurl.com/yga7slp 11/30/2009 |
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#ParkSlope (my neighborhood) restaurants underpaying their workers. http://tiny.cc/D1LBG (via @fureigh & @miriamyum) 11/26/2009 |
Is Your Metrocard Sending You a Secret Message?
City Room —
... around a parking lot in the sprawling cooperative housing complex. [Daily News] Nearly two dozen Park Slope restaurants have underpaid their own employees nearly $1 million - in some cases paying workers as little as $2.75 an hour, according to the state Department of Labor. [Daily News] Transportation ...
When Restaurants Behave Badly
Fork in the Road —
... without news of stolen wages, indictment for tax evasion, or just plain crazy- ass behavior. Obviously, shady business practices and shitty treatment of workers are nothing new in the restaurant industry, but with any luck would-be miscreants will take a lesson from the sins that were exposed over the past five days. After the jump, the week's greatest hits. The latest and most egregious example of bad and patently illegal behavior came yesterday afternoon, when news broke that the State Labor Commission had found that more than 200 workers in 25 Brooklyn restaurants had ...
Aunt Suzie's Owner Spoke Against Sick Leave Before Being Busted for Wage-Dodging
Grub Street New York —
... Melissa Patisserie, Baluchi's, Sette Enoteca e Cucina, and Aunt Suzie’s. And a call to Christine Quinn’s office reveals that Aunt Suzie owner Irene Lo Re spoke against paid sick leave. To make matters more interesting, Lo Re is president of the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District and she has also been a chairperson of Community Board 6. We’ve called Lo Re to find out what, exactly, it is that she doesn't like about the bill.
State Labor Department names Park Slope eateries that underpay staff [NYDN] ...
Restaurant Owner's Email to Staff Belongs in Tyrant Hall of Fame
Gothamist —
... . Inspections during the spring revealed that some workers made as little as $2.75 an hour; the minimum wage for food service workers is $4.65 per hour. (Today the Daily News revealed that the restaurants include Aunt Suzie’s, Baluchi's, Sotto Voce, Olive Vine Café, and Sweet Melissa Patisserie.) Getting chiseled out of already laughably low wages is rough, but at least they didn't have the misfortune to be employed by Paradou owner Vadim Ponorovsky, who's earned some notoriety today for an incredibly nasty email he sent to staffers at his Meatpacking district restaurant. ...
After Investigation By State Labor Department, Is Owner Of "Olive Vine" Taking Time To Reflect?
Pardon Me For Asking —
... It is unclear if Demis is just remodeling the space or if he is going to re-open under a new name. Perhaps he has given up the location completely. Back in November 2009, when the Daily News reported that Demis violated the minimum wage laws by paying his cooks as little as $6 an hour, he lamented to the newspaper: ...
