• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months 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.

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      2 months 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.