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> not including tips — the first such minimum pay-rate in the country for an industry that exploded in… Hell yeah! Please let this catch on everywhere, tips sh

by Spivak 3y ago

> not including tips — the first such minimum pay-rate in the country for an industry that exploded in… Hell yeah! Please let this catch on everywhere, tips should be pure gravy for service workers and not part of the base salary. If a business is making any demand of an employee's time they need to be paid at least minimum wage by the person making that demand. It is silly how bad we've messed up "you want a human for 1hr, this is the rate."

prottog 3y ago
> Please let this catch on everywhere It's already federal law when it comes to the minimum wage. People like to bandy about the fact that tipped employees have a minimum wage of $2.13/hr without also mentioning that the employer is legally required to make up the difference to meet the $7.25/hr minimum if tips fall short of that amount. Of course, not all employees know this, and some employers take advantage of that fact. But that's an enforcement issue, not an issue of a lack of legislation.
- Spivak 3y ago
  No, I mean it needs to be $7.25/hr flat and tips are on top of that.
  - prottog 3y ago
    I would certainly prefer that plus a culture of tipping only for extraordinary service over what we have now.
listenallyall 3y ago
I realize this is highly unpopular when said out loud ... if tips are "pure gravy" then I'm going to be far more discerning when giving them out. I happen to think there are numerous jobs far more strenuous or difficult or important to me than a food server.
- andromeduck 3y ago
  That should absolutely be the norm. Don't tip if the service is not desired or utilized. I honestly hate American service it's so fake an naggy, servers that interrupt you every 10 minutes for no fucking reason.