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Restaurant paid workers below minimum wage, feds say. Now it must pay back $168,000

A Mississippi restaurant paid kitchen employees a monthly salary that fell below the federal minimum wage, according to labor department officials.

Now, the restaurant has to pay back its workers.

The Super King Buffet, an all-you-can-eat Asian restaurant in Hattiesburg, about 80 miles north of Biloxi, paid 17 kitchen workers a monthly salary that fell below the minimum wage hourly pay, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Labor.

The restaurant’s owner could not be reached for comment on May 25.

“Paying a worker a monthly salary does not relieve an employer from their obligation to pay their workers at least the federal minimum wage or overtime premiums, should those apply,” Wage and Hour Division District Director Audrey Hall in Jackson, Mississippi, said in the release.

The labor department said it recovered $168,864 in back wages and damages for employees.

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