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Would it shock you to find out that many, many employers break the law? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Wage_theft_versus_other_property_cr

Would it shock you to find out that many, many employers break the law? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Wage_theft_versus_other_property_crimes.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Wage_the... https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-theft-protect/ https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-th... To everyone: please tip. It is in fact very likely that any given restaurant is not and would not make up the difference in pay for an under-tipped employee.

cgriswald 6y ago
> It is in fact very likely that any given restaurant is not and would not make up the difference in pay for an under-tipped employee. Your sources do not support this claim.
- minikites 6y ago
  Here, let me quote from the article I linked: >Survey research shows that well over two-thirds of low-wage workers have been the victims of wage theft. "Over two-thirds" means you are more likely than not to eat at a restaurant that has cheated its employees.
  - cgriswald 6y ago
    I followed some of the links and could not find a primary source for the data. (Links were either broken, redirected to the same page, or lead to other secondary sources.) So please link that if you've got it. > "Over two-thirds" means you are more likely than not to eat at a restaurant that has cheated its employees. No. It doesn't. It means that, in their entire lifetime as employees of any number of employers, two-thirds of employees, at least once, experienced wage theft in some form. That's a much different statement and says nothing at all about whether those employees were robbed of overtime, asked to work for free, or their employers claimed tip credits for tips the employees didn't receive.
    - minikites 6y ago
      >That's a much different statement and says nothing at all about whether those employees were robbed of overtime, asked to work for free, or their employers claimed tip credits for tips the employees didn't receive. These are all examples of "cheating employees", I'm glad we agree.
      - cgriswald 6y ago
        The only thing we agree on is that the items in the previous post are examples of wage theft. You've convinced me that you are trolling. You haven't addressed any arguments or provided any meaningful support to your pretty extreme claims. Your proposed solution, even if it were effective, would exclude large numbers of non-tipped employees. Even if, as you assert without evidence, the various labor boards around the country are ineffective, providing them with the funding that would otherwise go to tipped employees would be a much better solution than tipping. It would simultaneously remove resources from thieving employers, make them easier to identify, make it harder for them to find labor, and provide greater resources for those trying to stop them.
        minikites 6y ago
        Your original claim (that every tipped employee is making at least minimum wage and employers don't break the law) is in fact more extreme and yet you've provided zero evidence. I've provided plenty of evidence, you just don't like it because it's uncomfortable to think about. In fact, here, have some more evidence, I'm eager to find out what's wrong these these sources: http://wagejustice.org/wage-theft-facts/ http://wagejustice.org/wage-theft-facts/ https://unprotectedworkers.org/index.php/broken_laws/index https://unprotectedworkers.org/index.php/broken_laws/index https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1731&context=ylpr https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... https://money.cnn.com/2017/12/18/news/economy/wage-theft-workers/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2017/12/18/news/economy/wage-theft-wor...
        cgriswald 6y ago

cgriswald 6y ago

> It is in fact very likely that any given restaurant is not and would not make up the difference in pay for an under-tipped employee. Your sources do not support this claim.

minikites 6y ago
Here, let me quote from the article I linked: >Survey research shows that well over two-thirds of low-wage workers have been the victims of wage theft. "Over two-thirds" means you are more likely than not to eat at a restaurant that has cheated its employees.
- cgriswald 6y ago
  I followed some of the links and could not find a primary source for the data. (Links were either broken, redirected to the same page, or lead to other secondary sources.) So please link that if you've got it. > "Over two-thirds" means you are more likely than not to eat at a restaurant that has cheated its employees. No. It doesn't. It means that, in their entire lifetime as employees of any number of employers, two-thirds of employees, at least once, experienced wage theft in some form. That's a much different statement and says nothing at all about whether those employees were robbed of overtime, asked to work for free, or their employers claimed tip credits for tips the employees didn't receive.
  - minikites 6y ago
    >That's a much different statement and says nothing at all about whether those employees were robbed of overtime, asked to work for free, or their employers claimed tip credits for tips the employees didn't receive. These are all examples of "cheating employees", I'm glad we agree.
    - cgriswald 6y ago
      The only thing we agree on is that the items in the previous post are examples of wage theft. You've convinced me that you are trolling. You haven't addressed any arguments or provided any meaningful support to your pretty extreme claims. Your proposed solution, even if it were effective, would exclude large numbers of non-tipped employees. Even if, as you assert without evidence, the various labor boards around the country are ineffective, providing them with the funding that would otherwise go to tipped employees would be a much better solution than tipping. It would simultaneously remove resources from thieving employers, make them easier to identify, make it harder for them to find labor, and provide greater resources for those trying to stop them.
      - minikites 6y ago
        Your original claim (that every tipped employee is making at least minimum wage and employers don't break the law) is in fact more extreme and yet you've provided zero evidence. I've provided plenty of evidence, you just don't like it because it's uncomfortable to think about. In fact, here, have some more evidence, I'm eager to find out what's wrong these these sources: http://wagejustice.org/wage-theft-facts/ http://wagejustice.org/wage-theft-facts/ https://unprotectedworkers.org/index.php/broken_laws/index https://unprotectedworkers.org/index.php/broken_laws/index https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1731&context=ylpr https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... https://money.cnn.com/2017/12/18/news/economy/wage-theft-workers/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2017/12/18/news/economy/wage-theft-wor...
        cgriswald 6y ago