February 05, 2025
A Maryland federal judge greenlighted a collective of servers and bartenders in their lawsuit accusing a Creole restaurant of unlawfully claiming a tip credit to pay workers lower wages but then withholding some of their tips, finding the workers to be sufficiently similar.
October 19, 2023
A Maryland Creole restaurant isn't paying servers or bartenders full minimum wages, relying instead on a tip credit to make up the difference even though workers were not allowed to keep all the tips they earned, a former bartender told a Maryland federal court.