Bad idea. If you get enough tips they can start paying you as if you’re a tipped wage employee, shooting your pay down to like 2.13 an hour + tips federally in the US. States have different allowances that can be higher than that, but most don’t. You only need to be making 30 dollars a month in tips for your employer to legally start paying you as a tipped wage employee.
That’s protected from happening in my state of Washington, thankfully.
I’ve never heard of this happening to insiders in other states, though, because other places already pay minimum wage for kitchen staff. If one place decided to pull tipped wage trickery they’d have a massive exodus to a competitor. Delivery drivers on the other hand rely mostly on tips and management figures that they can take the abuse and tipped wage if they’re making more than most inside staff anyway.
That’s good. I do think this is why they’re trying to normalize the practice though, I wouldn’t be surprised 1 bit if one day every corporate fast food restaurant in tandem “happened” to decide that they’re paying their regular employees tipped wages.
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Bad idea. If you get enough tips they can start paying you as if you’re a tipped wage employee, shooting your pay down to like 2.13 an hour + tips federally in the US. States have different allowances that can be higher than that, but most don’t. You only need to be making 30 dollars a month in tips for your employer to legally start paying you as a tipped wage employee.
src: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped
That’s protected from happening in my state of Washington, thankfully.
I’ve never heard of this happening to insiders in other states, though, because other places already pay minimum wage for kitchen staff. If one place decided to pull tipped wage trickery they’d have a massive exodus to a competitor. Delivery drivers on the other hand rely mostly on tips and management figures that they can take the abuse and tipped wage if they’re making more than most inside staff anyway.
That’s good. I do think this is why they’re trying to normalize the practice though, I wouldn’t be surprised 1 bit if one day every corporate fast food restaurant in tandem “happened” to decide that they’re paying their regular employees tipped wages.