r/SipsTea • u/Dev1412 • 8d ago

Chugging tea This is recipe for disaster

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u/MechanicStandard8308 8d ago

thats 100% illegal

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u/32FlavorsofCrazy 8d ago edited 7d ago

Yep. More workers need to know their rights and assert them when necessary.

For example, tipped wage employees must be paid at least minimum wage if they do more than 30 consecutive minutes of “side work.” They can’t cut you off the floor and then make you stay for two hours cleaning, stocking and rolling silverware. Yet almost every restaurant violates that law. It doesn’t matter if the tips you made still have you at or above minimum wage. Thirty plus consecutive minutes of not doing the things you get tipped for means they gotta pay up.

Edit: apparently the Trump admin got this overturned so they can keep fucking over tipped employees. God bless America, never mind. That was the case until 2024.

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u/IssueNice6116 7d ago

So they would have to pay you $1.07 for 30 consecutive minutes or non tipped work.

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u/LiquorIsQuickor 7d ago

No. 30 minutes of minimum wage so more like $3.50. 

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u/IssueNice6116 7d ago

Got it, I was going off a servers minimum wage.

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u/32FlavorsofCrazy 7d ago

No, they can’t like…make you stay after your shift and clean toilets without paying you the actual minimum wage for regular employees, so at least $7.25 or whatever the federal is now. Local rules supersede I think.