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> The lawyer said if anyone brought a pay discrimination case to them based on tipping they would strongly consider taking it to court. Better be pro-bono. Cau

by pierat 3y ago

> The lawyer said if anyone brought a pay discrimination case to them based on tipping they would strongly consider taking it to court. Better be pro-bono. Cause no tipped worker I know could even afford an hour of lawyer time, let along dozens or hundreds of billable hours for defeating tipping. You all realize that tipped wage is $2.35/hr, which isn't usually enough paid consistently either. Restaurants and tipped places are THE WORST.

jamilton 3y ago
Maybe a union or other worker rights organization could support it.
- jraph 3y ago
  There might be a more efficient way of obtaining this through a union: strikes until the base salary is not enough. But in a country and a field where unions and strikes don't seem very common, this is difficult.
hollerith 3y ago
>Better be pro-bono. If it is a good case, a lawyer will take it "on contingency," meaning the lawyer gets paid only if his client wins.
seanmcdirmid 3y ago
> You all realize that tipped wage is $2.35/hr, which isn't usually enough paid consistently either. That isn’t true in all states, in California, Oregon, and Washington (and MT, NV, MN, AK) they make at least minimum wage, tips are always on top of that, no tip credits are allowed.
graton 3y ago
> You all realize that tipped wage is $2.35/hr, which isn't usually enough paid consistently either. That is the federal tipped wage (which actually seems to be $2.13/hr). It depends which state you live in. Seems like only 15 states use the federal amount [1]. Where I live in Oregon tipped workers get the full minimum wage of $15.45/hr in the Portland metro area. There is also $14.20/hr for the rest of the state, and $13.20/hr for some rural counties. Some other states also require tipped workers to be paid the full minimum wage, but not that many. 1. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped
xboxnolifes 3y ago
I've never met a single person take home $2.35/hr on a tip-based service job. Every single one I've known brought home more than normal minimum wage, with many of them doing much better than that. I hate tipping culture as much as the next tipping-service-hater, but there's no reason to bring about irrelevant points.

by pierat 3y ago

jamilton 3y ago

Maybe a union or other worker rights organization could support it.

jraph 3y ago
There might be a more efficient way of obtaining this through a union: strikes until the base salary is not enough. But in a country and a field where unions and strikes don't seem very common, this is difficult.

hollerith 3y ago

>Better be pro-bono. If it is a good case, a lawyer will take it "on contingency," meaning the lawyer gets paid only if his client wins.

seanmcdirmid 3y ago

> You all realize that tipped wage is $2.35/hr, which isn't usually enough paid consistently either. That isn’t true in all states, in California, Oregon, and Washington (and MT, NV, MN, AK) they make at least minimum wage, tips are always on top of that, no tip credits are allowed.

graton 3y ago

> You all realize that tipped wage is $2.35/hr, which isn't usually enough paid consistently either. That is the federal tipped wage (which actually seems to be $2.13/hr). It depends which state you live in. Seems like only 15 states use the federal amount [1]. Where I live in Oregon tipped workers get the full minimum wage of $15.45/hr in the Portland metro area. There is also $14.20/hr for the rest of the state, and $13.20/hr for some rural counties. Some other states also require tipped workers to be paid the full minimum wage, but not that many. 1. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped

xboxnolifes 3y ago

I've never met a single person take home $2.35/hr on a tip-based service job. Every single one I've known brought home more than normal minimum wage, with many of them doing much better than that. I hate tipping culture as much as the next tipping-service-hater, but there's no reason to bring about irrelevant points.