4 Florida restaurants with the same owner had to give over $250,000 of back pay to staff after the Department of Labor said they only paid servers tips
in pay from the restaurant, with the rest made up in tips. For an example, if a worker made $100 in tips for a five-hour shift, the restaurant would still have to pay them $7.98 an hour. If the worker made only $10 in tips for that shift, the restaurant would have to pay them $9 an hour to bring their hourly pay up to $11.
Companies also have to pay staff overtime premium of one-and-a-half times their usual hourly wage for hours worked over 40 per week. The four Florida restaurants paid staff straight time for all hours worked, the DOL said. "Federal and state laws prohibit employers from forcing tipped workers to depend on customers' generosity to make a living," Wildalí De Jesús, the district director of the DOL's Wage and Hour Division in Orlando, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Low wages are one of the factors that drove thousands of workers out of the restaurant industry during the pandemic. As of May 2021 – the most recent date for which data is available for – Florida had nearly 820,000 people working in food preparation and serving-related roles, earning an average hourly wage of $13.68, data from the
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