The National Labor Relations Board has accused two restaurants in Manhattan of breaking the law when they fired 22 deliverymen who complained that they were not being paid the minimum wage, an advocacy group for immigrant workers announced yesterday. The federal labor board said that the two restaurants, among the city?s most highly rated eateries, had illegally retaliated against the workers because they had banded together to assert their rights. The case will now go before an administrative law judge, with the labor board asking that the deliverymen be reinstated and be given back pay and that the reataurants pledge not to engage in future retaliation or intimidation.
See "U.S. Brings Charges Against Two Restaurants for Firing 22 Deliverymen", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, October 3, 2007