Tipped restaurant and bar workers in Chicago will make $15.80 per hour through raises over the next few years as subminimum wages are banned.

  • guyrocket@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Pretty sure a tip intended for an employee going to the employer is illegal. Employers cannot keep tips.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      This is true, in Illinois. However, restaurants can do whatever they like with “service charges”, though customarily those go to the service staff. Automatic gratuity is already illegal in Illinois, or at least illegal to enforce, so a lot of restaurants already apply a service charge on large parties… easy enough, and perfectly legal, to expand that and claim it as revenue.

      And that’s just the legal route. Wage theft is rampant in this industry, at least in Chicago.

      Source: Am current server in Chicago for over decade.