Foodienomics

Big Trouble in Little India

Thali up those back wages, Jay Bharat!
Thali up those back wages, Jay Bharat! Photo: LWY via Flickr

Two popular Indian restaurants in Artesia are paying roughly $95,000 in back wages to 22 employees who worked overtime, but were not paid the standard time-and-a-half rate. Following a probe by The U.S. Labor Department, Chandrakant Patel, the owner of both Jay Bharat and Standard Sweets and Snacks, is paying employees proper compensation for their past overtime, while promising to do the same going-forward. Hopefully, this shows some sort of turn-around for L.A.’s service industry following February’s grim appraisal of working conditions in L.A.’s restaurant industry. [SF Gate]

Big Trouble in Little India