Historic change for tipped workers: Subminimum wage to end in Chicago restaurants, bars
Historic change for tipped workers: Subminimum wage to end in Chicago restaurants, bars
Tipped restaurant and bar workers in Chicago will make $15.80 per hour through raises over the next few years as subminimum wages are banned.
Tipped restaurant and bar workers in Chicago will make $15.80 per hour through raises over the next few years as subminimum wages are banned.
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Will tips still be included though? Or are they eliminating tips?
Washington State changed the minimum wage years ago and mandated it to include tipped workers. It didn't really change the tipping, but the tips still went to the staff, so at least the workers got a more livable income out of the deal.
I'm just sick of tipping now, I'm done. I won't go to restaurants anymore because of it
Currently the subminimum wage in Chicago ranges from $9 to $9.48 an hour plus tips.
Restaurant servers and other tipped workers are paid a "subminimum wage" which acts as a base pay and is bolstered by tips.
Chicago does tips on top of the wage. That hasn't changed. So that might mean eliminating tips to some patrons.
Watch, the companies will still try to confisticate the tips though
Tips will be mostly irrelevant once patrons are not shamed and manipulated into paying tips. If the salaries are already paid, most people will not tip.
Tips finally got to a breaking point in the US and they're on the way out for good.
Tips would probably go to the company. They'll get their's no matter what.
Pretty sure a tip intended for an employee going to the employer is illegal. Employers cannot keep tips.
You think the law will stop them?
The NLRB loves cases like this
The NLRB is not a true friend to workers.
This is true, in Illinois. However, restaurants can do whatever they like with "service charges", though customarily those go to the service staff. Automatic gratuity is already illegal in Illinois, or at least illegal to enforce, so a lot of restaurants already apply a service charge on large parties... easy enough, and perfectly legal, to expand that and claim it as revenue.
And that's just the legal route. Wage theft is rampant in this industry, at least in Chicago.
Source: Am current server in Chicago for over decade.
You think it's just in Chicago? Wage theft is the biggest type of theft in the entire nation. Dollar for dollar, it dwarfs the rest put together.
I don't think it's just in Chicago, but I can only speak to my experience, which is in Chicago.
That would be illegal.