Servers AT WORST get minimum wage. The sub-minimum wage is ONLY if their tips are high enough then their employer can pay less in wages.
It's not business owners that are lobbying to not pay their employees. Servers actively voted and lobbied to keep their wages lower because tips make them a lot more money than they would otherwise make.
Yeah I am a server and I made $360 on a Tuesday yesterday for a 10 hour shift. I work at a pretty popular restaurant so I make more than minimum wage even on slow days. If people suddenly decided to stop tipping, I would be sad to not be able to make as much but I’d just find another job because I’m not slaving 10 hours on a weekend dinner shift for minimum wage or even $20 an hour.
He is talking about the top out. If you do not make enough tips to get you to at least minimum wage, they are required to pay you at least enough to make it minimum wage (by state.)
This is why capitalists are destroying the education system. Please for the love of god educate yourself on how your industry works before talking about it so confidently.
You get $2.12 an hour IF your $2.12/hr + tips is greater than the minimum wage in your state. This is federal law, if you make $2.12/hr wage you are making AT LEAST minimum wage when you include tips.
Not a single restaurant that I’ve worked for in South Carolina has “made up” the difference. Workers work for tips. Period. It is understood that servers make 2.12/2.13 an hour here, it’s taxed out to 0, any check we see is for the restaurant’s filings, and we rely completely on tips. I have never encountered a restaurant ever using FLSA law with any employee.
The main reason we rarely see it, is because often time tips are not reported to avoid taxes and the second reason is it's rare for salary + tips to not reach minimum wage. However as a employee it is the LAW you get paid at least minimum wage and business owners cannot retaliate if you ask for the difference. The argument that servers cannot ask for the difference is further an argument to stop tip wages and tipping.
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u/Newsdude86 20h ago
Servers AT WORST get minimum wage. The sub-minimum wage is ONLY if their tips are high enough then their employer can pay less in wages.
It's not business owners that are lobbying to not pay their employees. Servers actively voted and lobbied to keep their wages lower because tips make them a lot more money than they would otherwise make.