That would be illegal.
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Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoTips would probably go to the company. They’ll get their’s no matter what.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
vivadanang@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Always has been. inthesetimes.com/…/wage-theft-union-labor-biden-i….
guyrocket@kbin.social 8 months ago
Pretty sure a tip intended for an employee going to the employer is illegal. Employers cannot keep tips.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You think the law will stop them?
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The NLRB loves cases like this
unfreeradical@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The NLRB is not a true friend to workers.
Nemo@midwest.social 8 months ago
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.
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Nemo@midwest.social 8 months ago
I don’t think it’s just in Chicago, but I can only speak to my experience, which is in Chicago.