 Workers were trained on how to use software for tracking things like tips, but he says it wasn't being used properly. Adams says many workers were either in school or needed the money for their families. Few spoke up and were just thankful to have a job during the pandemic. The owner's paying over $260,000 to over 70 workers as part of a wage theft lawsuit that D.C.'s attorney general filed last year. That includes pay their road and damages.