Chef Daniel Boulud, workers settle class-action suit

More than 1,000 workers at Daniel Boulud’s Manhattan restaurants have settled a class–action lawsuit against the Michelin-star chef for $1.4 million. The 1,050 employees involved in the suit claimed that while they were paid $5-an-hour jobs as tip-earning servers, they were also required to do other menial work, such as cleaning bathrooms, for which the wage should have been $8 an hour. The workers also accused the French-born, New York-based restaurant owner of taking the tips that came from…