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Walk It Through: The Register That Came Up Short

A shared till short at close, a dropped tray of glasses, a lost scanner, and a look at the file.

At a diner, three servers share one register. It comes up short at close, and the manager says the shortage will come out of everyone's pay.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

Deductions from a server's pay. An overpayment recovered from a later check, a uniform deposit, and a deduction under a union contract are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.