Have you worked at Neighbors as a server or bartender? You may be owed wages.

Our firm filed a collective action lawsuit in Tennessee federal court under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) on behalf of servers, bartenders, and other tipped employees who have worked at Neighbors at one or more of their Germantown, Gulch, Sylvan Park, or Franklin locations in Tennessee. In this case, “tipped employees” are workers paid less than $7.25 per hour, plus customer tips. The lawsuit alleges, among other violations, that tipped employees at Neighbors were required to work off-the-clock without pay and perform significant amounts of non-tipped work (such as opening and closing “side work”) both before the restaurant was open to customers, and after customers were no longer being served, all while being paid less than minimum wage. 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.

If you worked at any Neighbors location and wish to learn more or join this case, you may call us at (615) 244-2202 or submit a consent form to join this case directly to our office by clicking the button below.