The owner of a Utah restaurant is facing a lawsuit from a former employee who says they failed to pay overtime and illegally deducted money from workers’ paychecks to cover visa costs.
The complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the District of Utah accuses the owner of Eight Moons Thai and Sushi of requiring employees to work more than 40 hours per week without overtime compensation and intentionally misclassifying them as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime requirements.
The plaintiff, Ju Ying Liu, further alleges that the owners made illegal deductions from employees’ pay to ...
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