Have you worked at Ford’s Garage in Kentucky as a server or bartender? You may be owed wages.

Our firm filed a class and collective action lawsuit in Kentucky federal court under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and Kentucky state law on behalf of tipped employees, like servers and bartenders, who have worked at Ford’s Garage. In this case, “tipped employees” are workers paid less than $7.25 per hour, plus customer tips.

The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that Ford’s Garage violated the tip credit provisions of the FLSA and Kentucky state law by requiring these tipped employees to share tips with employees who are not eligible to receive tips (like members of the dishwashing team) and by requiring them to perform significant amounts of non-tip producing work (such as opening and closing “side work”). Some examples of non-tip-producing work are janitorial/cleaning and stocking work performed before the restaurants were opened to customers—when no customer tips could be earned—and similar work performed after employees were done serving customers. The lawsuit also alleges that Ford’s Garage did not provide these tipped employees with proper tip credit notice under the law.

If you worked at a Ford’ Garage in Kentucky within the last three years and wish to learn more or join this case, you may call us at (615) 244-2202. You may also submit a consent form to join this case directly to our office by clicking the button below.