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>Tipped workers have a lower minimum wage Do they really though? The employer must guarantee that they earn the standard minimum wage, regardless of what happe
by dTal 8y ago
>Tipped workers have a lower minimum wage
Do they really though? The employer must guarantee that they earn the standard minimum wage, regardless of what happens with tips, so effectively their minimum wage is the same as everyone else's and all this stuff about "base pay" is a wordplay shell game.
Either way, what's effectively happening is the customer is subsidizing somebody who their employer would otherwise have to pay, so it all amounts to the same thing: your tips up to a certain level are going to the employer, not the employee.
- gamblor956 8y agoThey really do. The legal tipped minimum wage is different from the standard minimum wage. The requirement that tipped workers make at least standard minimum wage is a backstop protection intended to apply to the (extremely rare) situation that a tipped worker does not actually make more than standard minimum wage. Going to repeat this again, for emphasis: tipped workers have always had lower base wages than non-tipped workers. The make-good requirement is a late addition to labor law that very rarely applies. The make-good requirement applies so rarely that a server who doesn't make at least standard minimum wage after tips will likely be let go for basic incompetence.