Hundreds of Austin restaurant workers to receive back wages

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Hundreds of Austin restaurant workers will receive back wages after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division determined they weren’t being properly paid by their employers.
The division says in fiscal year 2016, nearly every one of its investigations of restaurants in Austin revealed the owners were violating federal labor laws. From October 2015 to June 2016, investigators helped recover more than $330,000 in back wages for 500 Austin res