Waffle House is increasing pay for its U.S. workers after a push from labor advocates. In a video message to employees late last month, Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers III said base pay without tips would rise to at least $3 per hour in June and then gradually rise to at least $5.25 per hour by June 202
This should be illegal. Tips should not make up the entirety of an employee’s pay.
Oh it’s not the entirety, the employer has been paying tipped folks at least $2.35 per hour! What recompense.
The 7i exemption, also called tip credit allows employers to take tips reported and lower the wages they pay and replace those wages with tips the public pays and have it count toward the federal minimum wage, which is a whopping $7.25 per hour and hasn’t increased since 2009 thanks to corporate ownership of the GOP and fecklessness from Democrats. It’s difficult to say what is more offensive economically or socially.