Ruby Tuesday Wage & Hour Class Action Lawsuit
By Mike Holter
A group of Ruby Tuesday bartenders and servers in New York and Florida have filed a class action lawsuit against the restaurant chain for unpaid wages, unpaid overtime and other labor law violations.
The workers claim in the class action lawsuit that they were forced to work off-the-clock and were not paid for all the actual hours they worked. This is because the restaurant allegedly only allows employees to clock-in once customers arrive, and then requires them to clock-out after the last customers leave, even though employees are required to work before and after these times. As a result, the workers claim they were not paid minimum wage for the actual hours they worked and did not receive overtime compensation for hours they worked over 40 per week.
In addition, the Ruby Tuesday workers allege in the overtime class action lawsuit they were did not receive spread-of-hours pay, or an extra hour’s wage for every shift over 10 hours. Ruby Tuesday is also accused of improperly deducting money from bartenders’ tips by illegally forcing them to use their own tips to make up for cash shortages in the tip pool allocation between bartenders and servers, food runners and hosts.
The Ruby Tuesday wage class action lawsuit is seeking compensation for unpaid wages with interest, liquidated damages, unpaid overtime, unpaid spread-of-hours, reimbursements for money taken from the bartenders’ tips, and attorneys’ fees and costs.
Updated April 27th, 2012
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47 thoughts onRuby Tuesday Wage & Hour Class Action Lawsuit
I worked at Ruby tuesday from 2017 to 2019. I never received a paycheck from Ruby tuesday except for the week i trained. I was not allowed to clock in until the first customer arrived. Then had to clock out before we rolled silverware.
Seriously how do you get in on this, I worked for three different locations throughout Nashville, TN and can definitely help. Please let me know what I can do.
I worked for that company for 17 yrs . I had started in dish and had worked my way up in the chain to AGM. They made me transfer because of nepatism but upon me agreeing to transfer they said that they would’ve compensated me for my transfer but keep in mind that as a black AGM I was the most under paid in the region not even 60k a year. So they got me out here I worked with them for a while and I asked them for after a short period of time when will I be getting compensated for my transfer and the same RGM that told me that they were gonna compensate had changed his statement talking about due to the nepatism that they were no longer gonna be able to compensate me let’s keep in mind that throughout my yrs of service with this company I’ve made them over a half of a million dollars off of my blood sweat and tears. Ok the GM had shift leads closing that didn’t have their serve safe certification for weeks nothing was sid or done u had a family emergency one day and had swipped that same shift lead Matthew cone I believe his name was and they fired me for it no write up no warning just terminated on the spot. And another thing their saling liquor illegally using my name at the Ruby’s in americus Georgia and I haven’t been in that store for over a year and I’m no longer employed with the company my name is Kevin Copeland my number is 2295915292 I feel like there’s a conversation that needs to be had don’t you agree