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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by deepsun on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @04:50PM (#19030128)
Many many places do that. I worked in PizzaHut in NJ, and they pay you less than minimum wage initially. Then you report your earnings, and if your tips + salary / hoursworked < minimum wage, then they will pay you the difference to match minimum wage.

So you have incentive to report 0.0 tips. But then our manager at PizzaHut let go everyone who reported 0.0 tips (when asked why, he said they called customers to confirm we did receive tips).

And that's not only PizzaHut, that's everyone doing that, at least in NJ.

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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by javagram on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:12PM (#19030336)
Many states have what’s known as a tipped minimum wage which is different from the minimum wage.

The tipped minimum is usually something like $2 vs the $7 minimum wage (these numbers are probably off now that so many places have raised the minimum wage to $10 or $12).

Since in this instacart case they ended up paying out $.80 an hour it’s below even tipped minimum wage standards, although I assume there’s some dodge about claiming the employees are contractors to get around paying wages.

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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by tomjakubowski on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @08:38PM (#19031787)
WA doesn't have a separate tipped minimum wage, which makes the violation even more flagrant.
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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by aqme28 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:05PM (#19030266)
> when asked why, he said they called customers to confirm we did receive tips

That would make some sense even. If a server doesn't get tips, that could be a sign that they are a bad server.

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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by sib on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:27PM (#19030455)
Also, that they were lying to him.

(Not agreeing with wage / tip theft, of course, but, as an employer, you need to be able to believe your employees.)

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Re:Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @08:55PM (#19031895)
There is no moral obligation to say the truth when it is inappropriate to ask the question in the first place.
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