A group of employees of a Yankees Stadium vendor recently filed a lawsuit against Legends Hospitality, the concessions and management services company that runs that stadium's banquet services. The three workers involved in the suit claim they were shortchanged when it came to both their hourly pay rate and overtime they should have earned for time and attendance beyond 40 hours in a single week.

In New York, employees must receive at least minimum wage - $7.25 per hour - in addition to premium rates that are at least one-and-a-half times their base pay if their employee attendance goes into overtime.

However, the individuals filing the suit allege their hourly earnings sometimes dropped below the federal standard and that they didn't receive the extra remuneration for work performed outside of 40-hour work weeks. Additionally, the workers claim Legends Hospitality did not give them a cut of the service charges that were tacked on to guests' bills during private parties, according to Bloomberg.

Employers can ensure they are paying workers all of the wages they are owed by investing in payroll processing tools that accurately track employees' work time and alert supervisors if workers' totals are approaching overtime. 

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