The internet has collectively stepped up to call out a college bar in which a young woman's paycheck amounted to $0 every week.
The now-viral post has garnered 6,600 upvotes and 500 comments, and it is titled, "My daughter got a job in a bar and her paychecks are zero every week. WTF." Redditor @7dayweekendgirl shared the post to the subreddit "Antiwork," and it has been turning heads ever since.
Under the law, tips are wages, and they are the property of the employee only. There isn't a legal scenario where the employer receives part of an employee's tips, as that's wage theft, according to Work Force.
According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, an employer is required to pay an employee $2.13 an hour in wages on a basis that what the employee is paid in tips will come out to the federal minimum wage of $7.25. But if the worker makes less than the federal minimum wage along with the added $2.13, a tip credit must be paid to "fill the gap" to equal the federal requirement.
Employees should be aware that abuses by employers do happen. Tax evasion is the underpayment or nonpayment of taxes, and it's illegal. According to Nolo.com, one of the ways businesses try to escape paying employment tax is to falsify payroll tax returns.
The original poster's (OP) daughter, who is 22, has a weekend job working as a cocktail waitress at a "cash-only bar" in Boston, and she mentioned to her mom that her paychecks are "zero every week." The young woman's mom looked at the pay stub and saw...
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