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Tip Skimming from Waitstaff is a Serious and Under-Reported Problem

June 21, 2016 Steven Kronenberg Leave a comment

Food safety is about more than just pathogens and pesticides. It’s also about making sure that the people who grow, process, cook, and serve our food have safe working conditions and are treated fairly:

Image Credits: Los Angeles Coalition Against Wage Theft (available at UCLA Labor Center website).

Tips provide a substantial portion of restaurant workers’ income. However, some management personnel unlawfully take some or all of those tips. Please see my new article about tip skimming in the June 2016 issue of Plaintiff Magazine to learn more about the under-reported problem of wage theft.

Categories: Class Actions, Discrimination and Harassment, Minimum Wage, Overtime Pay, restaurant workers, Restaurants, Tip Skimming, Tips, Unpaid Overtime Tags: wage theft

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