February 2, 2015

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced his office obtained two separate judgments of nearly $800,000 against Emstar Pizza, a Papa John’s franchisee, and its owner and operator for underpaying employees. The violations include shaving workers’ pay by under-reporting hours and rounding down hours worked to the nearest whole hour increment (and paying nothing for fractions of hours), as well as nonpayment of overtime premiums—all in violation of New York State Labor Law. NY

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