restaurant managers increasing claimed tips of servers

[DHAllen80]

West Virginia. I work at a corporate restaurant . I have recently discovered that managers are increasing the tips that I claim in order to avoid paying an actual check. If I claim 500 dollars for the two week pay period, my check reads that I have claimed over 1000 for the same pay period. This cannot be legal.

 

[cbg]

When you reported this to corporate headquarters, what did they say?

 

[DHAllen80]

When you reported this to corporate headquarters, what did they say?

It has not been reported

 

[LdiJ]

It has not been reported

Then it needs to be reported.

 

[DHAllen80]

Then it needs to be reported.

Yes. Obviously it does. But I'd rather not put a target on my back without proper research. I'm trying to obtain as much information as possible before becoming a "whistle blower"

 

[commentator]

You will most likely not be painting a target on your back, both with Wage and Hour and probably with your corporate headquarters if you can do one thing. That is, keep your mouth shut firmly about what you have done and about what the employer is doing and what is going on and how you and your co workers don't have to take this, blah blah blah.....I have even seen it happen that when the employees are all up in arms about how they are being paid or not being paid, whatever, and one person is very vocal about it, and someone else calls in a complaint, the loud one gets terminated shortly thereafter. (Terminated for some other reason of course, so there's no whistleblower protection for you. Very few employers are going to be dumb enough to make it apparent that was the reason you are terminated, even though it may be perfectly obvious to you.)

But seriously, I'd call Wage and Hour, they will NOT come in and say, "Employee Joe Blow has called us and reported that you were..." What hangs you up is usually that you've rushed out as soon as you have made this call and told all your co workers what you've done, and somebody of course eventually lets the boss know. If there's not a big talker in the break room, they'll be hard pressed to figure out which of their employees did the calling and complaining and they can't fire everyone and continue to stay in business.