TikToker Maia Dobbs (@maiadobbs) has previously spoken out against an employer she alleges stole tips from its workers, stating that the business gave hourly rates to its staff yet would still ask customers for gratuities, which the company then doled out as they saw fit.
She’s posted an update about the scenario in a new TikTok that’s garnered over 375,000 likes.
“I recently rage quit my waitressing job for stealing my tips, and in trying to report them, I may have uncovered a bigger problem,” Dobbs begins.
Dobbs explains that after several failed attempts at reaching the Connecticut Department of Labor, she received a strange call from a blocked number.
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“I received a phone call from a blocked number saying that they were the Connecticut Department of Labor and that they were gonna send me a check for my stolen wages, but they needed to verify my address,” Dobbs says. “They said they also wanted to let me know that it’s totally legal for employers to keep employees’ tips because it’s considered property of the employer.”
Dobbs says she thought to herself, “That sounds funny. This whole thing sounds really funny,” before adding, “I’ve been talking to someone at the Federal Department of Labor … and she said, ‘That doesn’t sound right at all. I don’t know that that was actually the Connecticut...
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