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It would actually magically transform it from a tipped position to a non tipped position. If you dont tip the server they still receive a legal min wage. If you tip the server all you're doing is paying the employers share of that employees wage.
You assume the business isn't committing fraud by not reporting accurate tips and/or aren't taking advantage of the naive and vulnerable by convincing them it is in their best interest to not report accurately.
Wage theft is the largest and most common category of theft in the US, after all.
The only real solution is a general strike of all wage staff that prevents these businesses from operating until things change. But that would require massive unionization efforts before it would even be remotely possible.
No. I am assuming that the business is committing fraud by misleading their employee into thinking their pay will remain $2 + tips even when their tips are below the min wage or the business is just paying $2 + tips instead of the legal min wage. The only thing being discussed here is the Fair Labor Standards Act. Everything else is random shit you're making up to muddy the water.
A general strike would be the best outcome for the business. All they have to do is say "ok things have changed we will pay you what you're lawfully owed.
Legal action the business could be fined 10k or more and the employee gets all lost wages + costs.
Yeah and also when the president rapes kids, he's goes to prison.
I'm sorry how is this relevant?
How the law is intended to work and how reality works are entirely different.
Do you seriously think people aren't winning these kind of cases? FLSA cases get won all the time. Also its different because wage theft is illegal but trump can legally rape kids according to the supreme court.