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[โ€“] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh we realize, but it's difficult to stop once it's been ingrained in the culture. Not only that, employers took advantage of that and therefore tipped employees have a much lower minimum wage.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Technically they have the same minimum wage. If they don't get back up to minimum wage in tips, the employer is legally required to make up the difference. The issue is most people don't know this, and so employers get away not doing it. This is one of the many forms of wage theft, the most common form of theft in the US.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And minimum wage isn't a liveable wage in most of the US now. Well, unless you split rent amongst 4 working people in a single bedroom apartment. That's only an exaggeration in some of the US.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Or the servers do know that and don't want to collect on a few extra bucks to lose their job the next day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Which means tips up to minimum wage are just extra money in the bosses' pocket.

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