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Skriven 2011-05-18 17:23:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Sean Dennis
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 -=> Quoting Sean Dennis to Glen Jamieson <=-

G'day Sean,

 GJ>  -> Tennessee

 SD> Here in Tennessee, the Federal minimum wage for wait staff applies,
 SD> but the state has a "promised wage" law that mandates that the
 SD> employers are responsible for paying to the employees promised by the
 SD> employer.  If there's problems with that, then the Federal law applies
 SD> . . . as of 2011, the Federal minimum wage for wait staff is $2.13 per
 SD> hour plus tips.  The Federal minimum wage is $7.25.  According to
 SD> Federal law, if the total of a wait person's tips plus their hourly
 SD> base rate do not equal at least the Federal minimum of $7.25 an hour,
 SD> the employer must make up the difference. 
 SD> That is a Federal law meaning that it applies in all 50 states.

If employers stick with that, it would help to equalise pay rates.

 SD> What Hap neglects to mention is that many, many waitpersons make much
 SD> much more than minimum wage when they include their tips.  I know
 SD> several college students here that can clear $300 a night or more in
 SD> tips, so it's not as bad as he has lead you to believe.  It's hard
 SD> work, sure, but if you're good, you can really "make bank".  Of course,
 SD> side jobs (like cleaning glasses, setting tables, cutting lemons) can
 SD> pull wait staff off of the floor so they don't have as much opportunity
 SD> to make money, but that's generally only during off-peak hours to do
 SD> "busy work". 

Of course some places would score much larger tips than others.

 SD> In fact, if you'd like to do some reading straight from the US
 SD> government, take a look for yourself:
 SD> U.S. Department of Labor: Tipped Employees Under the Fair Labor
 SD> Standards Act (FLSA)
 SD> http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs14.pdf
 SD> U.S. Department of Labor: Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees
 SD> http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

Later...

 SD> Unfortunately, there is an entire book that could be written about all
 SD> the things that wait staff go through, such as forced pooled tips, that

When my daughter worked as a waiter at the local Hyatt hotel, where
many overseas visitors stayed, she got the basic minumum wage, which
in those days (22 years ago) was $12 an hour, as did the kitchen
staff.  It was normal practice for all restaurant staff to pool and
then share tips equally, which made sense, as the kitchen staff were
primarily responsible for creating exceptionally good dishes.  Anyone
who tried to keep any of her tips was viewed quite unfavourably.

 SD> while legal are rather dishonest.  Wait staff can even have tips that
 SD> were put on a credit card docked to cover the restaurant's credit card
 SD> transaction fee from their bank.

Nasty!

 SD> Oh, the US's real unemployment rate is somewhere arong 17-20% when you
 SD> realize that a lot of the data that is presented to the public has been
 SD> highly manipulated by the US government to paint a much rosier picture
 SD> than what really is: our government is broke and can't pay its bills

I heard that recently, with great surprise.  Its credit limit has been
reached, so no more borrowing.

 SD> from poor management, so they take the hell out of businesses, large
 SD> and small, who then hide their profits so they don't have to pay these
 SD> outrageous taxes and then don't hire people.  It's a vicious circle.

Perhaps the larger businesses can afford to hire the most "creative"
accountants.

 SD> I used to own a small business but I shut it down since I was being
 SD> overtaxed for what little business I was trying to get in a rather
 SD> competitive and bad economy.

That would be very discouraging.

 SD> What "minimum wage" means in the US: when you make minimum wage, your
 SD> boss is really saying to you "I'd pay you even less if I could, but the
 SD> law makes me pay you this no matter what".

So what now?
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