Hundreds of Employees Owed $1.3 million in Back Wages

The Globe has shared a list of over 30 local restaurants that owe a collective $1.3 million to almost 500 employees. The list comes from an enforcement initiative by the US Department of Labor and includes instances such as lack of overtime, incorrect wages, unlawful deductions and the misclassification of workers as independent contractors to shirk paying minimum wage, aka the least amount of money you should ever pay anyone. Many of the establishments are in the burbs but several are right here in town, including Miracle of Science, Tory Row and both the Harvard and Fenway locations of Cambridge 1. Entries 15 to 30 are all Not Your Average Joe's.

1. D’Ann’s Restaurant Abington
2. Fresh City Needham Heights
3. Fresh City Newton Newton Upper Falls
4. Fresh City Woburn
5. Fresh City Burlington
6. Met Bar & Grill Natick
7. Met Bar & Grill Dedham
8. Metropolitan Club Chestnut Hill
9. Miracle of Science Bar + Grill Cambridge
10. Middlesex Lounge Cambridge
11. Tory Row Cambridge
12. Audubon Circle Boston
13. Cambridge 1. Harvard Square Cambridge
14. Cambridge1. Fenway Boston
15. Noon Hill Grill Medfield
16. Not Your Average Joe’s Burlington
17. Not Your Average Joe’s Acton
18. Not Your Average Joe’s Arlington
19. Not Your Average Joe’s Methuen
20. Not Your Average Joe’s Newburyport
21. Not Your Average Joe’s Norwell
22. Not Your Average Joe’s Randolph
23. Not Your Average Joe’s Watertown
24. Not Your Average Joe’s Beverly
25. Not Your Average Joe’s Hyannis
26. Not Your Average Joe’s Dartmouth North Dartmouth
27. Not Your Average Joe’s Lexington
28. Not Your Average Joe’s Medford
29. Not Your Average Joe’s Needham
30. Not Your Average Joe’s Westboro
31. Paul W Marks Everett
32. The Sherborn Inn Sherborn
33. TGI Fridays Framingham
34. Upper Crust Salem

· 34 Boston-area restaurants owe back wages [Boston.com]