Comment on Restaurant Bill

• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently Federal Law sort invalidates the legality of a tip pool altogether because the tip only counts as a tip if the person who tips determines who the tip is given to and how much and it’s non compulsory. But a lot of places ignore that as well.

  www.nolo.com/…/state-laws-tipped-employees.html

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Management was stealing wages from you, comitting tax fraud

    Thst is not how taxes work, and if they’re reporting it that way they’re breaking the law.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s technically tax fraud, but yes. You could be.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Managment can not legally be part of tip pools in the US,

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please read the above thread because I recognize that it is illegal, but so are tax fraud and wage theft.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I did. The thing is tip pools themselves aren’t inherently illegal. They’re doing illegal things with the tip pool. There is a distinction there.

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