The pair filed a lawsuit against the restaurant's owner, Strategic Hospitality, in January 2020 for alleged wage theft. Smith, a server, and James Meadows, a bartender, worked at Downtown Sporting Club for several months in 2019.
Lawsuits: Restaurants distributed tip money to non-tipped workers "Hopefully seeing these victories will help more people come forward and work to de-normalize these behaviors," he stated. Smith, a member of restaurant workers organization Restaurant Opportunities Center Music City, served as one of the representative plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit against Strategic Hospitality. Hayden Smith, a former employee at one of Strategic Hospitality's eight Nashville-area properties, said in a March 10 release the settlements show how common wage theft and improper tip distribution are in the restaurant industry.
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"Unfortunately, there is a national trend of law firms and serial plaintiffs generating business by targeting the restaurant industry and exploiting businesses already vulnerable as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic," Hyndman and the Goldberg brothers said. M Street Entertainment Group will pay $600,000, including $380,922.68 in back wages and damages to 242 of its employees. The settlements do not admit fault.īoth companies "vehemently protest the allegations of the lawsuit(s) as unfounded and egregious," Strategic Hospitality owners Benjamin and Max Goldberg and M Street owner Chris Hyndman wrote in a joint statement. In its settlement approved March 9, Strategic Hospitality agreed to pay $427,000, including $247,400 in back wages and damages to 261 employees. The class-action lawsuits each alleged the restaurant groups withheld a portion of employees' tips to distribute the money to non-tipped employees or to cover business expenses such as uniforms. Strategic Hospitality and M Street Entertainment Group, two juggernauts in Nashville's restaurant industry, last week agreed to pay a combined $1.03 million to settle separate lawsuits alleging tip and wage theft.
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