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Many many places do that. I worked in PizzaHut in NJ, and they pay you less than minimum wage initially. Then you report your earnings, and if your tips + salar
by deepsun 8y ago
Many many places do that. I worked in PizzaHut in NJ, and they pay you less than minimum wage initially. Then you report your earnings, and if your tips + salary / hoursworked < minimum wage, then they will pay you the difference to match minimum wage.
So you have incentive to report 0.0 tips. But then our manager at PizzaHut let go everyone who reported 0.0 tips (when asked why, he said they called customers to confirm we did receive tips).
And that's not only PizzaHut, that's everyone doing that, at least in NJ.
- aqme28 8y ago> when asked why, he said they called customers to confirm we did receive tips That would make some sense even. If a server doesn't get tips, that could be a sign that they are a bad server.
- sib 8y agoAlso, that they were lying to him. (Not agreeing with wage / tip theft, of course, but, as an employer, you need to be able to believe your employees.)
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoThere is no moral obligation to say the truth when it is inappropriate to ask the question in the first place.
- javagram 8y agoMany states have what’s known as a tipped minimum wage which is different from the minimum wage. The tipped minimum is usually something like $2 vs the $7 minimum wage (these numbers are probably off now that so many places have raised the minimum wage to $10 or $12). Since in this instacart case they ended up paying out $.80 an hour it’s below even tipped minimum wage standards, although I assume there’s some dodge about claiming the employees are contractors to get around paying wages.
- tomjakubowski 8y agoWA doesn't have a separate tipped minimum wage, which makes the violation even more flagrant.