"None of us are really mad at our managers. It's just how it was, and it should have been done differently," one employee said.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Baristas at Heine Brothers' Coffee are getting backpay after the Department of Labor found the Louisville-based company was violating a labor and wage law.
The coffee shop's union wrote on Twitter that its Organizing Committee "would have liked to see the company confront their mistakes without being forced by federal agencies to respect the law."
The local chapter of the National Conference of Fireman and Oilers, a division of the Service Employees International Union, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor on May 19, asking it to look at Heine Bros' tip pooling system.
The department found that store managers were partaking in tip pooling when they should not have been, and worked with the company to give baristas tips they were owed.
"None of us are really mad at our managers. It's just how it was, and it should have been done differently," Aaron Bone said, an employee at the Northfield location and also a union organizer.
Bone says his tip payment was $882 and has noticed other employees got allocations based on several factors, but mainly how many hours they worked.
Bone believes many other restaurants will realize, or be told, they have been doing the same thing.
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