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Darden Restaurants Sued Over Wages

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    FNC legal analyst Lis Wiehl on a lawsuit alleging Darden Restaurants underpaid its employees.

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This your favorite restaurant chain break federal labor laws and a lawsuit alleging Darden restaurants incorporated which includes magazines olive garden.

Longhorn steakhouse capital -- -- lobster.

Is under paying its workers with more on this -- -- Fox News legal analyst -- joins me now so you don't look for class action on the.

They're looking for class action but they only have two plaintiffs that I've got -- complaint right here it's a nineteen page complaint.

And there are only alleging to -- so they're asking they're saying that thousands of employees.

With all of these companies eateries but were strongly getting hungry and I don't author now -- -- glad this show -- -- Are under and employing under paying their employees are saying they're checking in and they're not certain working more hours than they should.

The tips -- making up for it it's under minimum wage they need to be paid and they wanna have thousands of employees come to this class action.

But the tip off for me when I look at this ninety page complaint is.

Okay.

You wanna class action but you can only find two plaintiff such a problem.

Why not a problem and I think and it's -- -- to get the group going him well -- -- -- how we're having been normally before you go into a class action in go to federal judge in this case here.

You wanna go in and say I have to -- I -- -- 10500.

War one like hundreds -- to comment.

To going with two to -- Cheryl is very unusual now.

We can look at Wal-Mart remember that Wal-Mart discrimination case with lemon with women right.

That was certified over a very long time because women were said to been in this one -- class gonna get certified -- It's not that easy to get a class action certified that -- -- -- that all these employees in these different.

Restaurants -- discriminate against the same -- That's really into what you know I did see that -- asking about the down in Texas.

There's a couple similar lawsuits that Darden.

Settled one was at the olive garden I was -- Mesquite, Texas 2000 right and then in Lubbock Texas from lobster doesn't that help the case.

For abuse lawyers that are.

-- -- and yes it can't it can't because you can look at those settlements and say look you wouldn't settle if there wasn't something wrong.

But you have to go back to the class action -- today get certified as a class action that's really difficult.

With what update all of gardens could go back and say or -- lot to connect to look it was a nuisance value suit.

You know we just gave him a few thousand bucks just to make them go -- no way does that make it a class action.

Lease will listen -- -- isn't we have phone now we're gonna know really hungry dynamics there are away from megaton -- aren't typical is that you have that.

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