The Rosy’s Mexican Restaurant is a Mexican restaurant that has already got a bad reputation in the United States and even managed to be sanctioned by the authorities of that country for avoiding giving decent wages to its workers and abusing them at work.
The owners of the establishment located in Jacksonville, Florida, were investigated by the federal Department of Labor and, after a long resolution, now they must pay 118 thousand 042 dollars (approximately 2,440,248 Mexican pesos) of back wages and damages.
Mexican restaurant will pay millionaire salaries
According to the law, Rosy’s Mexican Restaurant will allocate 11,804 dollars (244,020 pesos) to each of the 10 affected employees.
And it is that the Department of Labor declared that the investigators of the Division of Wages and Hours found that the restaurant made the waiters work only for tips, without paying close to the 6.98 dollars (144.30 pesos) required by law in Florida.
Likewise, the administration did not pay the extra hours worked by the dishwashers, cooks and waiters, who accumulated more than 40 hours in a week. There were also no payroll records with the start and end times of the shift, which made exact payments impossible.
But the most serious limitation for the gringo investigators was making a 15-year-old minor work after 7:00 p.m., which violates the child labor regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
The inquiries revealed that in matters of state health, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation indicated that Rosy’s passed the inspection on November 16 of last year, after on the 10th of the same month it added 11 infractions, including five of high priority.
Sanctions under US Law
State records state that Rosy’s, at 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., is an establishment started in 2005 by E & E Quezada Food Services Corp., specifically company president Ever Quezada and vice president Elsa Quezada, who today draw various sanctions.
Irregularities range from “raw fruits and vegetables, not washed before preparation” (cut avocados with labels still on); “exposed food not adequately protected from contamination” (cut lemons discovered at waiter station); and “prohibition of selling refried beans at the wrong temperature”.
“By denying servers wages and forcing them to live only on tips and denying other workers overtime pay, Rosy’s Mexican Restaurant made it harder for these employees, who depend on every dollar, to take care of themselves and their families.”, said the director of the District Office of the Wage and Hour Division, Wildalí De Jesús.
The owners of Rosy’s Mexican Restaurant did not respond to messages and media calls from the Miami Herald newspaper, but the case quickly went viral when the Employment Education and Outreach alliance alerted the Department of Labor about the problems at Rosy’s. This body combines actions with agencies and consulates in the Caribbean and Latin America to help Spanish-speaking workers assert their rights in North America.
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