Popular Hobart restaurant forced to pay $78,000 in back wages for unpaid overtime

Hobart’s El Capitan restaurant forced to pay nearly $80K in unpaid overtime, damages

Thirteen workers at a Hobart restaurant will be paid $78,799 in back wages and liquidated damages after a judge found the restaurant’s owner and manager coerced them to return money they agreed to pay.

Popular Hobart restaurant forced to pay $78,000 in back wages for unpaid overtime

A popular Mexican restaurant in Hobart was ordered to pay back $78,000 in back wages to employees after allegedly not paying them time and a half for overtime.

Hobart restaurant owner to pay thousands in back wages, damages after not paying employees overtime

HAMMOND, Ind. (WISH) — The owner and manager of a Mexican restaurant in Lake County will have to pay nearly $80,000 in back wages and damages to 13 employees after not paying them proper overtime and then coercing them to give back overtime payments. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division opened in 2021. A release made Tuesday says federal investigators found that Richard Serrano, the owner of El Capitan Seaf…