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solrac149
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California
My girlfriend got a "job" 3 weeks ago at a bikini bar. (It's a bar with pool tables, and a stage for girls to dance on, no nudity.) She waitresses and dances.
She was accepted and started on a Tuesday. She was told she would have to work on tips only for three weeks, then she would be put on payroll, which is minimum wage. (Plus tips)
For the past three weeks, she's been working very hard. 7 hours a night, until 2 am, and she even stayed late to clean up the bar and do NON-TIPPED work. This is because she would start on Payroll on Monday, March 8. On a couple of nights she only got $5 or $10 in tips, and she still had to pay the bar the $5 stage fee, plus 10% to the bouncer, DJ, and bartender (each).
So she was basically working for 3 weeks, including doing non-tipped work, and had to pay $5 stage fees every night, and 30% tips.
However today she was told by one of the managers that there was NO PLAN TO PUT HER ON PAYROLL. EVER. Many girls apparently dance and waitress there for tips only, and never get on payroll. The person who took her application originally, and told her about payroll, was (I guess) not the manager and just some other employee. So it was misinformation. (This is what the manager said.)
Here's my questions:
1) Is it legal, in California, for someone to work as a dancer, on tips alone?
2) Is it legal for management to force such a worker to stay until closing and clean up the bar? (For no money??!!) They wouldn't let her leave many nights, even if there were no customers! And she stayed because she thought she was getting on payroll.
3) Is it legal to take down a job application, with ALL her info, including social security number, when there was NEVER a real position in the first place?
4) Is it legal to make the tips-only worker give up $5 a night plus 30% back to the bar, even though they are not on payroll?
If there's ANYTHING illegal going on here, I want those guys shut down, or at least settle with her and pay her something.
She is STRUGGLING to make ends meet, and was so happy to get this job. She was forced to stay until 2 am on several nights and made only $5 or $10 bucks! (And still had to pay the fees!) She would work 12 hours a day sometimes. (She has another part time job.) And she put in all that time and effort, and even bought some outfits to dance in, because they promised her a job with payroll. Or at least one person who works there did.
Is there anything I can do to make this right? I want justice. At the very least, I want them to pay her for 70 hours at minimum wage. (About $472.50)
Thanks for all your help,
-Carlos-
My girlfriend got a "job" 3 weeks ago at a bikini bar. (It's a bar with pool tables, and a stage for girls to dance on, no nudity.) She waitresses and dances.
She was accepted and started on a Tuesday. She was told she would have to work on tips only for three weeks, then she would be put on payroll, which is minimum wage. (Plus tips)
For the past three weeks, she's been working very hard. 7 hours a night, until 2 am, and she even stayed late to clean up the bar and do NON-TIPPED work. This is because she would start on Payroll on Monday, March 8. On a couple of nights she only got $5 or $10 in tips, and she still had to pay the bar the $5 stage fee, plus 10% to the bouncer, DJ, and bartender (each).
So she was basically working for 3 weeks, including doing non-tipped work, and had to pay $5 stage fees every night, and 30% tips.
However today she was told by one of the managers that there was NO PLAN TO PUT HER ON PAYROLL. EVER. Many girls apparently dance and waitress there for tips only, and never get on payroll. The person who took her application originally, and told her about payroll, was (I guess) not the manager and just some other employee. So it was misinformation. (This is what the manager said.)
Here's my questions:
1) Is it legal, in California, for someone to work as a dancer, on tips alone?
2) Is it legal for management to force such a worker to stay until closing and clean up the bar? (For no money??!!) They wouldn't let her leave many nights, even if there were no customers! And she stayed because she thought she was getting on payroll.
3) Is it legal to take down a job application, with ALL her info, including social security number, when there was NEVER a real position in the first place?
4) Is it legal to make the tips-only worker give up $5 a night plus 30% back to the bar, even though they are not on payroll?
If there's ANYTHING illegal going on here, I want those guys shut down, or at least settle with her and pay her something.
She is STRUGGLING to make ends meet, and was so happy to get this job. She was forced to stay until 2 am on several nights and made only $5 or $10 bucks! (And still had to pay the fees!) She would work 12 hours a day sometimes. (She has another part time job.) And she put in all that time and effort, and even bought some outfits to dance in, because they promised her a job with payroll. Or at least one person who works there did.
Is there anything I can do to make this right? I want justice. At the very least, I want them to pay her for 70 hours at minimum wage. (About $472.50)
Thanks for all your help,
-Carlos-