Comment on Historic change for tipped workers: Subminimum wage to end in Chicago restaurants, bars
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Will tips still be included though? Or are they eliminating tips?
Currently the subminimum wage in Chicago ranges from $9 to $9.48 an hour plus tips.
Restaurant servers and other tipped workers are paid a “subminimum wage” which acts as a base pay and is bolstered by tips.
Chicago does tips on top of the wage. That hasn’t changed. So that might mean eliminating tips to some patrons.
Watch, the companies will still try to confisticate the tips though
Tips would probably go to the company. They’ll get their’s no matter what.
Pretty sure a tip intended for an employee going to the employer is illegal. Employers cannot keep tips.
This is true, in Illinois. However, restaurants can do whatever they like with “service charges”, though customarily those go to the service staff. Automatic gratuity is already illegal in Illinois, or at least illegal to enforce, so a lot of restaurants already apply a service charge on large parties… easy enough, and perfectly legal, to expand that and claim it as revenue.
And that’s just the legal route. Wage theft is rampant in this industry, at least in Chicago.
Source: Am current server in Chicago for over decade.
You think it’s just in Chicago? Wage theft is the biggest type of theft in the entire nation. Dollar for dollar, it dwarfs the rest put together.
That would be illegal.
Always has been. inthesetimes.com/…/wage-theft-union-labor-biden-i….
krellor@kbin.social 8 months ago
Washington State changed the minimum wage and mandated it to include tipped workers. It didn't really change the tipping, but the tips still went to the staff, so at least the workers got a more livable income out of the deal.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m just sick of tipping now, I’m done. I won’t go to restaurants anymore because of it