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COLUMBIA, SC – A South Carolina restaurant group has paid $618,666 in back wages to 779 employees and an additional $100,000 in civil money penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found child labor and wage violations across 13 restaurant locations.Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found tip pool, recordkeeping, and overtime violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act at multiple Tropical Grille locations. This included allowing managers and supervisors to participate in the restaurants’ tip pool, which is expressly prohibited under the FLSA. In addition, the employer failed to combine all hours worked for employees at various locations, which led