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0 pointsdeepsun7y ago0 comments

Many many places do that. I worked in PizzaHut in NJ, and they pay you less than minimum wage initially. Then you report your earnings, and if your tips + salary / hoursworked < minimum wage, then they will pay you the difference to match minimum wage.

So you have incentive to report 0.0 tips. But then our manager at PizzaHut let go everyone who reported 0.0 tips (when asked why, he said they called customers to confirm we did receive tips).

And that's not only PizzaHut, that's everyone doing that, at least in NJ.

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javagram7y ago

Many states have what’s known as a tipped minimum wage which is different from the minimum wage.

The tipped minimum is usually something like $2 vs the $7 minimum wage (these numbers are probably off now that so many places have raised the minimum wage to $10 or $12).

Since in this instacart case they ended up paying out $.80 an hour it’s below even tipped minimum wage standards, although I assume there’s some dodge about claiming the employees are contractors to get around paying wages.

tomjakubowski7y ago

WA doesn't have a separate tipped minimum wage, which makes the violation even more flagrant.

aqme287y ago

> when asked why, he said they called customers to confirm we did receive tips

That would make some sense even. If a server doesn't get tips, that could be a sign that they are a bad server.

sib7y ago

Also, that they were lying to him.

(Not agreeing with wage / tip theft, of course, but, as an employer, you need to be able to believe your employees.)

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC7y ago

There is no moral obligation to say the truth when it is inappropriate to ask the question in the first place.

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