Tipped employees may sue for more money......

I found this to be interesting......

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... story.html

I remember in my very eary days of being a server where the establishment I worked at then, the side work list included quite a bit of stuff that they should have had hired a paid kitchen employee to do, but made the $2.15 an hour service staff do instead.

So what I got out of the article is; for example, I'm a server working a 5 hr shift, and I spend a hour of that shift doing side work, then apparently I'm entitled to that one hour payed at full minumum wage. No matter how much I make in tips.
Sounds like a bookeeping nightmare to me.........

I believe this first came down the pike around 12 to 15 years ago, if I remember right it was Cracker Barrell and I want to say Denny's ?... that had class action suits against them for the same practices.
I was a G.M. at O'Charley's at the time and we went to paying all tipped employees minimum wage for opening duties and also for closing duties.
Basically the openers would clock in at minimum wage until 11:00 a.m. then reclock back in at $2.13 when they became a tipped employee and repeat the practice at night after the last table left.

I was a G.M. at O'Charley's at the time

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I was a G.M. at O'Charley's at the time

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LOL !! ....did the corporate thing for 8 years...., seems like a lifetime ago....