PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The owners of a produce market and a restaurant at Philadelphia’s historic Reading Terminal Market have agreed to pay over $660,000 in back wages and damages to resolve violations against them.
The U.S. Labor Department says the owners of Iovine Brothers Produce and Molly Malloy’s bar failed to pay overtime to workers after they exceeded 40 hours on the clock. Instead, the agency says owner James and Vincent Iovine paid the workers straight time, in cash.
It affected regular hourly employees and tipped employees like bartenders and waitresses.
Iovine Brothers Inc. will pay back wages to about 140 current and prior workers.
The Labor Department says the investigation that ran from August 2013 to August 2016 also uncovered the company didn’t maintain proper payrolls.
A message seeking comment from the brothers wasn’t immediately returned Tuesday.
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