Not to mention the many various ways restaurants skirt the law with regard to overtime/doubletime. I've seen a lot of ways they screw this up, but perhaps the m

Not to mention the many various ways restaurants skirt the law with regard to overtime/doubletime. I've seen a lot of ways they screw this up, but perhaps the most common is by using the tipped employee minimum hourly wage (usually at least $3 less than minimum wage, and often as little as $2/hour) as the base rate for OT/DT premiums. This can end up shorting tipped employees as much as $12/hour on OT and $16/hour on DT. Alerting businesses to this fact is usually met with fingers in ears/closing eyes/singing type reactions. Source: I work for a payroll company