New York City Subway restaurant franchisee pays $10K in punitive damages to employee fired by employer during US Department of Labor investigation
NEW YORK – The operator of a Subway restaurant franchise in Manhattan’s Lower East Side who fired an employee during an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has learned that underpaying employees and retaliating against them has expensive consequences.Division investigators found that NPK Foods Inc., which operates the Subway franchise at 334