PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — More than 200 food and beverage workers at Philadelphia International Airport have filed complaints with the city’s Department of Labor alleging wage and work-hour violations.
Workers for OTG Management, a restaurant group with 15 restaurants at Philadelphia International, said they aren’t getting paid minimum wages, and in other cases, they are being forced to stay beyond their scheduled hours without due compensation.
“I’m scheduled for 3:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., but most of the time my schedule will overlap. Sometimes I have to stay up to 2 p.m. or 12 p.m.,” said Musah Jabateh, a chef at Prime. “This really affects my family, because my daughter gets out of school at 2:30 and I gotta rush or I gotta call somebody to pick up my daughter because I can’t be there on time.”
A copy of the schedule at Prime shows a gap of 30 minutes between shifts for chefs.
OTG’s food and service workers are part of Unite Here Local 274, the city’s hospitality union. The union filed more than 50 complaints with the city.
OTG is owned by Duration Capital Partners, a private equity firm managing more than $3.5 billion in assets led by co-CEOs Emmett McCann and Josh Connor. KYW Newsradio has reached out to Duration Capital for comment.