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While this is true, good luck asking for it.
by tdeck 1y ago
While this is true, good luck asking for it.
- datadrivenangel 1y agoemployment lawyers love when managers refuse to honor their payment obligations. Treble damages.
- tdeck 1y agoThis comment is very disconnected from the reality of service industry wage theft. Employment lawyers rarely bother with a case where the potential payout is a few thousand dollars. In theory the federal or state department of labor could do something without the worker needing a lawyer. The federal DoL is useless in such cases and most state DoLs don't seem to do much either.
- AlwaysRock 1y agoMy understanding is if an employee who gets paid largely in tips isnt making more than min wage, that employee is almost always let go or quits. Employment layers dont love trying to prove a case that is pretty unlikely to be provable.
- throwway120385 1y agoThey can always find a reason, such as "so and so customer complained about your level of service and I can't have any complaints as a business owner" which on its face is a legitimate reason to fire someone.
- galaxy_gas 1y ago^This is how it is in practice You would rather be let go for performance reasons rather than they will pay you difference in 5$
- BobaFloutist 1y agoI don't understand how it's the customer's fault if managers are blatantly stealing wages. That sounds like someone else's problem to solve. If servers make it public, I'll stop going to that place, but preemptively tipping to avoid illegal labor practices feels like a bad solution.