Waitressing can be hard work.  The long hours and rude customers can make the job grueling.  The only reward is the decent money.  But one waitress isn’t even getting that.  Celeste Williams has filed a lawsuit against Jay-Z for not paying her for working in his club.

Williams is a waitress at Jay-Z’s trendy 4-0/40 Club.  She is alleging that he has been violating the federal labor laws by making her work for only tips.  She filed the class-action suit in Manhattan Federal Court.

The suit is written to include herself as well as other waitresses who work at the club.  The official charge is “willfully failing and refusing to pay them at the legally required minimum wage for all hours worked and time and a half rates for work in excess of forty hours per workweek.”

Jay-Z’s camp is denying the allegations. “That certainly is not true,” said club spokesman Ron Berkowitz of the charges. “Everyone makes the minimum wage at the club, 100%.”

Things aren’t looking too good for Jay, though.  Apparently there are many other workers not listed on the suit that are also angry about the conditions.  Fear of losing their jobs has prevented them from being included on the suit.

Hopefully the H.O.V.A. will reconcile with his waitresses and they can all get back to work.

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