Poll of the Day > Ways Employers Cheat Employees Out Of Pay

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Is your employer cheating your pay?

Hiring you as an unpaid intern

Employee misclassification

Depositing your retirement savings

Docking your checks for expenses

Paying less than minimum wage

Making you a manager - Your employer has you performing manager duties but you're officially manager therefore you aren't being compensated as such.

Working off the clock

Paying you under the table

Not reimbursing you for applicable expenses

Forcing you to skip breaks

Denial of vacation days or sick leave

Pressure to avoid workers comp claims


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Tip pooling with the kitchen

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They cheat me out of pay by not hiring me. Guess Im too competent.

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slacker03150 posted...

Tip pooling with the kitchen

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Boning my wife without paying me

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if you agree to an unpaid internship, that's not them cheating you out of pay
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

if you agree to an unpaid internship, that's not them cheating you out of pay

Yeah. This one is extremely common. If you so desperately want that internship that you are willing to do it without pay....you can't complain. Simple as that.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

They cheat me out of pay by not hiring me. Guess Im too competent.

I guess so.

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BUMPED2002 posted...

Paying you under the table

This usually results in more pay since you aren't losing a portion of your pay to taxes.
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slacker03150 posted...

Tip pooling with the kitchen

At first glance I misread this as "try pooing in the kitchen"

Which would be a great response to any employer who is doing these things.

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I was paid under the table at a small business at one point but I'm pretty sure that worked out in my favor.

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Tip oversight... at all

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Mead posted...

It is illegal in America, but many businesses still make you pay out to the kitchen so they don't have to pay the kitchen as much. They are using their employees money to pay other employees.

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I tip with the understanding that it will be pooled. Waiters are denying their coworkers tips.

slacker03150 posted...

It is illegal in America, but many businesses still make you pay out to the kitchen so they don't have to pay the kitchen as much. They are using their employees money to pay other employees.

No it isn't. A bill passed in March 2018 changed that.
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slacker03150 posted...

It is illegal in America, but many businesses still make you pay out to the kitchen so they don't have to pay the kitchen as much. They are using their employees money to pay other employees.

tip pooling is not illegal in the US

and honestly boh employees should get some percentage of tips because theyre busting their ass and most diners are tipping based on their overall dining experience

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SunWuKung420 posted...

No it isn't. A bill passed in March 2018 changed that.

Only if the wait staff is being paid minimum wage before tips. If they are being paid less, which many restaurants still do, they can only be required to share it with other employees making less than minimum wage.

Mead posted...

tip pooling is not illegal

and honestly boh employees should get some percentage of tips because theyre busting their ass and most diners are tipping based on their overall dining experience

The kitchen staff usually get paid more because you can find anyone to serve the food, but you need to have a decent cook to make people want to eat there.

So tip pooling is fine if your waiters and cooks are all making minimum, but waiters are allowed to be paid much less than minimum under the assumption tips will cover it. If the tips do not cover the difference management needs to pay out, so some places go with a tip pooling system that allows them to make sure all the servers are getting over minimum instead of paying it out of pocket. This helps the servers who are on a slower shift, or who had to take less charitable customers so is generally seen as positive since it can help anyone.

But if you include the kitchen into that pool as well you are basically using the servers and busboys wage so you can save a few dollars on the kitchen.

If they are all already being paid minimum wage it is not as big of an issue because all the tips are just extra and not something needed to make their wages.

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Sometimes I feel like my manager is too much of a pushover.

Then I read some horror stories on the internet and then I continue on working.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

No it isn't. A bill passed in March 2018 changed that.

im glad I live in australia where tipping is seen as an abberation and not the norm as we are award wages case in point when i used to work at Mcdonalds I was earning around $24 dollars an hour before taxes at the adult wage as a crew member but having said that we also have one of the worst cost of living because of our wages.

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Locke90 posted...

I was earning around $24 dollars an hour before taxes at the adult wage as a crew member but

But Australian dollars are like $0.13 US.
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You choose who you work for, and you choose who you do business with. That's capitalism baby. The fact that you suck at making those decisions isn't a fault of the system, it's a fault of you.

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