sharrymeow
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida
I started working at a sushi restaurant and 12% (around 12%, she doesn't calculate exactly, she rounds..) of my cash tips get taken out to pay for "credit card fees and taxes."
Normally, that money is taken out to tip out the sushi chefs/kitchen. But it's not. It goes towards credit card fees that the owner should be paying for, and the "taxes" paid aren't being reported. So it's like she's using money I earned to pay for HER taxes.
For my hourly wage ($5.03/hour in Florida), she takes out over 50% for taxes. She claims she takes out 7.65% for my total hourly + tips made. See my issue with this? If she's already taking out 12% from my cash, why is she taking out more a second time?? And when I calculated everything with her, I explained my paycheck was still significantly less than it should have been, which leads me to my third point.
She doesn't record EXACTLY what I make in tips. She ESTIMATES. She estimated I make 14/hour in tips. SO, my first paycheck, out of serving 9.5 hours, she estimated I made $130 in tips. In actuality, I only made $76.
When I pointed that out, she told me she uses an average(I've been working here 3 weeks now and have only seen that $14/hr once. The real average is $10), none of the other servers have complained about it, that's how she does it, and if I don't like it, I can leave. She also mentioned that most places take advantage of using tip credits, which she doesn't...
What can I do about this? This isn't right. My boss said she can get me a copy of my paystub from her accountant if needed. She also provides W-2s. I'm worried because I spoke with two of the other servers. Both are college students like me and barely understand how taxes work. They both started working at the same time, so they both dealt with the exact same things, but one of them got a tax refund while the other had to pay out of her pocket because she was informed that her boss didn't pay a certain part of her taxes. Now, I haven't asked the second for more detail, but I would assume that she got taxes taken out of her paycheck because if her co-worker did, why wouldn't she? So that's another issue. Why would she need to pay more if so much was already taken out of her paycheck?
I started working at a sushi restaurant and 12% (around 12%, she doesn't calculate exactly, she rounds..) of my cash tips get taken out to pay for "credit card fees and taxes."
Normally, that money is taken out to tip out the sushi chefs/kitchen. But it's not. It goes towards credit card fees that the owner should be paying for, and the "taxes" paid aren't being reported. So it's like she's using money I earned to pay for HER taxes.
For my hourly wage ($5.03/hour in Florida), she takes out over 50% for taxes. She claims she takes out 7.65% for my total hourly + tips made. See my issue with this? If she's already taking out 12% from my cash, why is she taking out more a second time?? And when I calculated everything with her, I explained my paycheck was still significantly less than it should have been, which leads me to my third point.
She doesn't record EXACTLY what I make in tips. She ESTIMATES. She estimated I make 14/hour in tips. SO, my first paycheck, out of serving 9.5 hours, she estimated I made $130 in tips. In actuality, I only made $76.
When I pointed that out, she told me she uses an average(I've been working here 3 weeks now and have only seen that $14/hr once. The real average is $10), none of the other servers have complained about it, that's how she does it, and if I don't like it, I can leave. She also mentioned that most places take advantage of using tip credits, which she doesn't...
What can I do about this? This isn't right. My boss said she can get me a copy of my paystub from her accountant if needed. She also provides W-2s. I'm worried because I spoke with two of the other servers. Both are college students like me and barely understand how taxes work. They both started working at the same time, so they both dealt with the exact same things, but one of them got a tax refund while the other had to pay out of her pocket because she was informed that her boss didn't pay a certain part of her taxes. Now, I haven't asked the second for more detail, but I would assume that she got taxes taken out of her paycheck because if her co-worker did, why wouldn't she? So that's another issue. Why would she need to pay more if so much was already taken out of her paycheck?
