Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is investigating whether contracted dining employees at Georgetown University were denied overtime, off-the-clock pay, paid sick leave, or compensation for all required work.
What is the issue?
Dining employees may be scheduled according to meal-service hours even though they must perform preparation, restocking, sanitation, closing, training, and inventory work outside those hours. Employees may also work at multiple dining locations while their combined weekly hours exceed 40.
A violation may occur when workers are told to clock out but continue working, when supervisors edit time records, or when hours worked for related dining operations are not combined for overtime purposes.
Workers may have experienced:
- Unpaid opening, preparation, restocking, or cleanup time.
- Pressure to finish work after clocking out.
- Weekly schedules kept just below 40 hours while employees performed additional unrecorded work.
- Unpaid mandatory meetings or training.
- Missed meal periods during busy shifts.
- Hours divided among dining locations or payroll entities.
- Failure to provide paid sick and safe leave to Georgetown University dining employees.
- Unlawful deductions for uniforms, meals, shortages, or equipment.
Signs you may be affected
- You worked as a cook, cashier, barista, dishwasher, food service worker, or other dining employee at Georgetown University.
- You worked for a dining services contractor rather than directly for Georgetown University.
- You performed opening, closing, preparation, or cleanup work before clocking in or after clocking out without being paid.
- You worked more than 40 hours in a week but did not receive proper overtime pay.
- Your paycheck did not accurately reflect all hours worked or omitted required wages or premium pay.
- You worked through unpaid meal breaks because staffing levels required you to continue serving students or customers.
Employees need not know which entity held the campus dining contract. The relevant contracting relationships can be determined from university agreements and payroll records.
If you performed cooking, food preparation, service, cashier, barista, catering, dishwashing, stocking, sanitation, porter, or other contracted dining work at Georgetown University and believe you were not paid correctly, please contact Migliaccio & Rathod LLP through the form below, by email at [email protected], or by telephone at (202) 470-3520.