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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
When tips are added into a servers pay they can do well.
Sad when the govt would rather borrow money than to work out a plan to get people back to work.
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MOST minimum wage workers don't get tips. In fact, in the state of Florida, tip-earning employees only have to be paid $5.63/hour by their employers, because it's expected that they'll make up the difference with tips. Usually they do. Sometimes they don't.
But those workers who were earning below the normal state minimum, plus tips, I totally don't blame them for wanting to bow out of the rat race for a few more months before they run out of benefits.
Especially now that there's been another surge in COVID cases and many of these workers have kids who *cannot* be vaccinated since they're under age. The last thing they need is to bring home a virus that will require them to stay home with their kids for a 2-week quarantine, with no income at all, not even unemployment benefits.