/biz/ - Business & Finance

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>>17159080
>An employer may pay a tipped employee not less than $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equal at least the federal minimum wage, the employee retains all tips and the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.

Interesting that the floor of minimum wage is there, I did not know that. But 7.50 base pay is still pretty meager and isn't going to help many people make rent.
>should've thought about that before you took the job!!
If they usually get good tips and count on that to make rent, and then get tipped much less by some diners in a certain month despite still preforming their duties well as servers, it's gonna hurt them and I can't fault them for being upset.

You guys ought to read Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. It's actually kind of fun, but also it's interesting to see how trapped those people on the bottom are.

I think I'll reread it, I'll have to download the audiobook.

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