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A union that’s organizing Waffle Houseworkers filed a petition with the Labor Department on Monday, asking federal officials to investigate the iconic chain’s policy of deducting mandatory meal costs from workers’ paychecks.

Waffle House takes at least $3 for each on-shift meal out of workers’ pay, whether they end up eating it or not, according to the petition from the Union of Southern Service Workers. The USSW called it “especially alarming” since many workers are paid a tipped sub-minimum wage “as low as $2.90 per hour,” not including gratuities.

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Anyone not familiar with this, NPR Planet Money has a great podcast about this.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1124477182

Tldr: right wing economists teach judges why trickle down economics is good and poor people are stupid.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yup that's where I learned about this. Thanks for the link.

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