{"id":159,"date":"2007-06-25T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cecsearch.com\/WordPress\/2007\/06\/25\/they-pay-you-how-much\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T03:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T07:59:46","slug":"they-pay-you-how-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/25\/they-pay-you-how-much\/","title":{"rendered":"They pay you how much?!?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cecsearch.com\/images\/money-bags.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"233\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\">I was just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrn.com\/breakingNews.aspx?id=342194\">reading today about a class action lawsuit<\/a> that was approved to move forward in the courts.&nbsp; It seems that <strong>servers of Applebee&#8217;s <\/strong>are an approved class and the action is against <strong>Applebee&#8217;s International Inc<\/strong>. The suit alleges that servers are required to spend more than 20% of their time doing un-tipped work but that they are only compensated at the tipped employee hourly rate.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that I could find in the FLSA (<b>Fair Labor Standards Act<\/b>) with regard to hourly wages for tipped employees is that a tipped employee is defined as one who receives at least $30.00 dollars in tips during one month (this is the federal definition, some states vary.)&nbsp; And that reported tips plus the hourly tipped employee wage rate ($2.13\/hr) must equal the federal minimum wage which is now $5.15\/hr.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t find anything that delineated the amount of time spent in tipped or non-tipped activities.<\/p>\n<p>As the estimates are that as many as 60,000 servers may be included in the class, if an average server worked only 20 hours per week,<b> the judgment could zoom past $60 MM<\/b> not including interest, if the <b>payment shortage was just one dollar per hour.&nbsp; <\/b>My conclusion is that this is just another example of a frivolous lawsuit brought to court by a greedy firm hoping to cash in big because of the size of the class.&nbsp; When I was in unit level management (at Shoney&#8217;s during it&#8217;s heyday) all the managers were out earned by the good servers on the wait staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Too bad this judge doesn&#8217;t seem to have any restaurant management in his background&#8230; he&#8217;d have thrown the case out with a big belly laugh.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more restaurant news stories of interest on our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecsearch.com\/restaurant_industry_news.htm\"> restaurant news page<\/a> and our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecsearch.com\/restaurant_industry_news_archive.htm\"> news archive page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading today about a class action lawsuit that was approved to move forward in the courts.&nbsp; It seems that servers of Applebee&#8217;s are an approved class and the action is against Applebee&#8217;s International Inc. The suit alleges that servers are required to spend more than 20% of their time doing un-tipped work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,4,14,15,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-job-seekers-tips","category-miscellaneous","category-politics","category-restaurant-jobs","category-restaurant-news","category-restaurant-recruiters-viewpoint","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}