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Waffle House
OSHA: no recordInjuries: no recordLabor: 12 casesImmigration: no recordContracts: not listed
The federal record for Waffle House, Wilmington, North Carolina, consists of 12 concluded Wage and Hour Division cases; the employer is classified under Food Services and Drinking Places.
The Wage and Hour Division concluded 12 compliance actions involving Waffle House, recording $12,859 in back wages agreed to pay for 31 employees and assessing $2,000 in civil money penalties, under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Family and Medical Leave Act and Employee Polygraph Protection Act.
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.
No OSHA inspection of this employer in North Carolina appears in the enforcement data since 2016. Inspections are recorded at the establishment; sites in other states are listed under those states.
Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A
Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.
No Form 300A summary for this employer in North Carolina is in the Injury Tracking Application data for 2023, 2024, 2025. Only establishments in covered industries with 20 or more employees (100 or more in some industries) must submit.
Labor Wage and Hour Division
The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.
Back wages by year of case conclusion
Compared with state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 722 | North Carolina | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back wages per case | $1,072 | $9,389 | $9,718 | $13K |
| Employees per case | 2.6 | — | 10.1 | 13.1 |
| Back wages per employee found due | $415 | — | $959 | $993 |
Acts
| Act | Violations | Back wages |
|---|---|---|
| Fair Labor Standards Act | 36 | $12,859 |
| Family and Medical Leave Act | 5 | $0 |
| Employee Polygraph Protection Act | 1 | $0 |
Cases
| Findings period | Violations | Back wages agreed | Employees | Penalties | Acts | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Aug 2018 – 1 Mar 2019 | 5 | $0 | 0 | — | Family and Medical Leave Act | Concluded |
| 17 Sep 2011 – 16 Sep 2013 | 1 | $6,201 | 1 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 17 Sep 2010 – 16 Sep 2012 | 3 | $382 | 2 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 4 Sep 2010 – 31 Aug 2012 | 2 | $0 | 0 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 1 Jan 2012 – 27 Feb 2012 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 1 Oct 2010 – 13 Apr 2011 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 2 Mar 2009 – 28 Feb 2011 | 4 | $743 | 3 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 2 Mar 2009 – 28 Feb 2011 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 25 Jun 2008 – 22 Jun 2010 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 13 Jun 2008 – 12 Jun 2010 | 26 | $5,533 | 25 | — | Fair Labor Standards Act | Concluded |
| 27 Mar 2006 – 26 Mar 2008 | 0 | $0 | 0 | — | — | Concluded |
| 7 Jul 2007 – 18 Sep 2007 | 1 | $0 | 0 | $2,000 | Employee Polygraph Protection Act | Concluded |
Every case in the WHD file is concluded; the file does not record whether back wages were subsequently paid. Case IDs: 1875476, 1697041, 1643237, 1659685, 1645690, ….
Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.
No labor condition application from this employer in North Carolina appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026.
No PERM application from this employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Contracts USAspending.gov
USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Not among the top 3,903 federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending for the latest twelve months. Smaller awards can be searched on USAspending.gov.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected Waffle House?
No OSHA inspection of Waffle House in North Carolina appears in the enforcement data since 2016.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
No OSHA record, so no penalties to report.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Waffle House?
The Wage and Hour Division's concluded cases record $12,859 in back wages agreed to pay across 12 cases, for 31 employees.
Does Waffle House sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
No labor condition application from Waffle House in North Carolina appears in OFLC disclosure data for fiscal years 2025–2026. LCAs are filed by the employer's headquarters state, so a subsidiary or another state's entity may hold the filings.
Does Waffle House sponsor green cards (PERM)?
No PERM application from the employer appears in the fiscal years covered.
Does Waffle House hold federal contracts?
It is not among the top federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending; smaller awards are not covered on this site.
Have there been union elections at Waffle House?
NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.
Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?
Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.
Provenance
OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.