Walk It Through: The Workplace
Tips and the minimum, a remark about age, a fall on the job, and a jury summons.
A server is paid $3.35 an hour plus tips, and a slow month leaves the total under the minimum.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One restaurant's year. Overtime, breaks, federal discrimination claims, the workers' compensation benefit amounts and paid time for jury service are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Exempt propertyProperty a judgment creditor cannot take, such as household goods up to $1,000 an item and $7,500 in all, tools of the trade up to $10,000 and one motor vehicle up to $10,000.
- Tipped employeeAn employee whose direct wage may be counted up by tips actually received but may not be less than $3.35 an hour, with the employer making up any shortfall below the $7.25 minimum.