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To: HairOfTheDog

Hair of the Dog asked :
What the heck does that really mean anyway?

The courts have corruptly ruled that employers may share the customer's tip among employees of the employer's choosing. You see, many waiters have gone to court alledging that their employer was stealing their tips and giving them to other workers. The courts have ruled that waiters are liars and that employers are not stealing their waiter's tips. The courts have ruled that employers should be allowed to pool their employees tips among employees whom the business owner believes should receive those tips, which in most cases is as many as possible. You see when business are allowed to share the customers tip among as many workers as possible, the financial benfits of the customer's tip become financial gains for the business owner. If business owners are allowed to share their employee's tips among all or many of their employees, then the business can reduce the wages they are paying all these employees and save money. If the courts would have ruled that the tips were the waiters and the wiaters alone, the businenss would be forced to pay higher wages to the other employees since they would then not be receiving any tips.

As far as determining how widespread this problem is, just consider this. If businesses steal their employee's tips and share them with other workers, our government will allow those employers to pay those employees less in hourly wages. What this means is that businesses are being rewarded for stealing the tips our public presents certain workers in the service industry. If you steal your employee's tip and share them with other workers whom customers neglected to tip, then our government will allow you an ability to save money and thus make more for yourself. You can reduce all your employees wages to $2.13 an hour saving yourself thousands of dollars a year, if and only if, you steal the tips from your tipped employees and share them with the other workers.

Now, how widespread do you think employer required tip pooling is going to become? You see, that is what the courts call this blatant stealing. They don't call it stealing, they call it employer required tip pooling. The courts have allowed employers an ability to mandate that tips received from customers must be pooled or shared among all employees who serve the customer in some way. Now instead of customer's having the right to determine who should receive their tip, the courts have claimed the right to determine who should receive the customer's tip. As a result the courts have ruled that tips do not belong to the person to whom they have been given but instead belong to those who serve the customer in some way. Business owners have gotten exactly what they wanted. They wanted the courts to rule that an employee who is given a tip has no legal claim to that tip and that is exactly what our corrupt justice system gave them. Now, when you give a tip to a employee, you are not really giving the employee the tip but instead you are giving the employer a tip so he can utilize the money to negotiate lower wages for his employees. The courts have ruled that the employee to whom you gave your tip has no legal rights to such money.

Employer required tip pooling is the courts ruling that the public should not have a right to determine for themselves who should receive their tip for such rights deny business owners their ability to steal their employee's tip.

My intent is not to suggest that the public should not tip if it is their desire to tip. My intent is to inform the public of what is actually happening to their tip and to politely and graciously ask that they stand up for my rights to keep the tip they have given me. You can stop tipping if you like, but please stand up for my rights to keep the tips that others have given me. Businesses across this country are stealing the tips you the public so graciously gives us workers in the service industry. We hate to trouble you after all the goodwill you've already shown but your goodwill is going in vain when you sit idly by as our employers steal our tips.


245 posted on 01/03/2006 12:39:09 PM PST by George14
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To: George14

I tip well and will continue to - I'm gonna ask at my favorite places if this is going on, though.


246 posted on 01/03/2006 12:43:28 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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