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Originally Posted by Graytop
We live in America,...if these workers don't like their wage or anything else about their employment, no one is forcing them to stay there. People work where they work because they've made a decision. Do we really need to reduce them to "victim" status? 
Why would you want to badmouth a company that's providing thousands of jobs to people,...perhaps you'd be happier if they didn't exist? ...You're living in a dream world if you think that restaurant jobs are ever going to pay a lot. It's just the way it is...I would guess that most servers understand going in that their "bread & butter" is in the tips, not what the restaurant pays them.
Go start your own restaurant and pay your workers whatever you want.  |
Most servers work as such because they are the only jobs they can find. Few want this as a career choice. Yes, it's their fault they're unskilled and probably uneducated but that doesn't mean they should be exploited. Yes, they are well aware that they depend on tips to survive and that their employer is not going to pay them the minimum wage, let alone a living wage. However, how many jobs do you know where you have to help pay the wages of your co-workers? Most servers do and it comes out of their tips. So, even if this bill becomes law, servers still will not be making the minimum wage. Show me another industry today in the United States where it is possible to LEGALLY work for less than the minimum wage on a regular basis.
If the legislature really wants to help servers, how about making it illegal for servers to have to start early to do prep work or stay late to clean up and be off the clock for that period? How about forcing employers to pay support staff the minimum wage and not force servers to pay tip-backs? This bill serves no one but the big chains.