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Actress Jessica Biel sued stealing $430,000 in tips from waitresses at her restaurant

Melensdad

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Many Hollywood actors and actresses invest their money in various businesses and restaurants are one of the many places where the stars put their money. Seems that one star is in a load of hot water. Jessica Biel has been named in a lawsuit, with her partners, for stealing $430,100 in tips and overtime pay from the wait-staff who work at her restaurant. The suit also hits here with a $1 Million punitive damage claim.

LINK >>> http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/09...aling-430000-tips-restaurant-employees-536725
Biel ... is being sued for allegedly stealing $430,100 in tips from low-wage workers at the Los Angeles kids’ restaurant she co-owns.

Biel and her business partners at Au Fudge restaurant are accused of withholding almost a half a million dollars in tips and for stealing $31,459 in “missed rest breaks” from their employees.

Nine current and former restaurant staffers are also suing Biel and her partners for $1 million in punitive damages, The Wrap reported. Au Fudge makes most of its money from hosting lavish private events around Hollywood, where customers are automatically charged a 22% gratuity.

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Instead of sharing the tips (totaling $430,1000) with its workers, Biel and her five partners allegedly pocketed the cash.

“Each of the plaintiffs had their gratuities wrongfully converted and were improperly denied meal and rest breaks, overtime compensation, and earned wages under various illegal payroll practices,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court this week.

The complaint continued:

Defendants charged hundreds of thousands of dollars in gratuities to private-party customers and converted said gratuities to themselves in order to pad their own pockets and deprive plaintiffs their just compensation in violation of law.

Plaintiffs were told they were entitled to receive compensatory gratuities directly from customers, including those customers who booked large private parties or events (such as Amazon, Netflix and Fox Studios).

Alexandra Desage, a former events director at Au Fudge, stated in a deposition that every private-event customer was misled into believing the tips would go directly to the employees who worked the event, and not the restaurant’s wealthy owners.
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Another source, The Wrap, reports:
http://www.thewrap.com/jessica-biel-restaurant-partners-served-lawsuit-stealing-tips-employees/
“Plaintiffs were told they were entitled to receive compensatory gratuities directly from customers including those customers who booked large private parties or events, (such as Amazon, Netflix and Fox Studios),” the employees claim in their complaint.

“Plaintiffs were informed that said private-party gratuities were negotiated between the private party customers and the Defendants and that said gratuities would be distributed in full to Plaintiffs. In truth, Defendants charged hundreds of thousands of dollars in gratuities to private-party customers and converted said gratuities to themselves in order to pad their own pockets and deprive plaintiffs their just compensation in violation of law.”

Apparently no matter how many millions of dollars they may have, they do not want to share it with their workers. It goes without saying that many of these Hollywood stars and starlets are very liberal in their political beliefs, including Biel who is a diehard Hillary Clinton supporter, but apparently only want other people to spread the wealth around.
 

tiredretired

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Many Hollywood actors and actresses invest their money in various businesses and restaurants are one of the many places where the stars put their money. Seems that one star is in a load of hot water. Jessica Biel has been named in a lawsuit, with her partners, for stealing $430,100 in tips and overtime pay from the wait-staff who work at her restaurant. The suit also hits here with a $1 Million punitive damage claim.

LINK >>> http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/09...aling-430000-tips-restaurant-employees-536725


Another source, The Wrap, reports:

Apparently no matter how many millions of dollars they may have, they do not want to share it with their workers. It goes without saying that many of these Hollywood stars and starlets are very liberal in their political beliefs, including Biel who is a diehard Hillary Clinton supporter, but apparently only want other people to spread the wealth around.

Isn't she one of those Hollyweird liberal progressive cry babies? That fits. Never trust em. Never. They perpetually have that blow smoke up your ass machine working 24/7.
 

Melensdad

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I do believe she is a very liberal actress. She and her husband (Justin Timberlake) held fund raising parties for Hillary Clinton in their home and raised millions for her campaign.

But that said, it appears that the vast majority of actresses in Hollywood are very liberal, so i don't think she is a stand out among them.

What I dislike is the hypocrisy of being preached to about things like 'fight for $15' and 'living wages' from people and then finding out that these same people screw over their employees, or don't practice what they preach.
 
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