Waffle House is increasing pay for its U.S. workers after a push from labor advocates. In a video message to employees late last month, Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers III said base pay without tips would rise to at least $3 per hour in June and then gradually rise to at least $5.25 per hour by June 202
Does that say the new total is 3/hr?
Correct. These people live almost exclusively on tips.
Wow, that’s…
The minimum wage in my province (British Columbia) is $CDN 17.40 (that would be 12.65 in USD)
It really is a dystopia down there.
Federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2 and some change.
Legally if they end up making below minimum wage ($7.25 federally I believe, some areas are higher) between tips and wages the employer needs to make up the difference. Obviously with some of it being cash it’s difficult to track and prove, so realistically they won’t make up the difference.
I’m not for tipping culture, but realistically they’re usually doing better than people making minimum wage without tips. I knew someone working at a DQ about a decade ago making $5.25/hour without tips. Minimum wage was still $7.25 back then, but apparently family owned businesses have a minimum wage of $5.25. Not sure if that’s true, but they were able to sell it to their employees.
Here in Canada they get minimum wage plus tips. So… yeah, wow.
I guess Americans are ok with subsidizing employee wages on behalf of companies.
I promise many of us are not.
We are not and we’re powerless against the kleptocrat overlords. If there was another America out there it’d invade to protect our democracy but no ither countries have the guts.
State to State here, but generally they are not legally required to pay minimum wage. Honestly neither make much sense to me, but that’s tipping culture for ya
Minimum wage here in Washington is over $16/hr ($CD 22/hr) for all workers. Some states have minimum wages that are not completely terrible.
Yup, and then total out to 5.25 by 2026. Why do you think their prices have started so low over the years?
(I’m not American so I have no idea what their prices are, but understood).
It’s also the wage for the tipped employees, the catch is that if the tips don’t make a minimum of 7.25hr (federally it’s different in some states) the business is suppose to make it up.
Supposed to make it up. Doesn’t mean they always do, and if you’re living paycheck to paycheck you can’t easily sue for lost wages