I’m posting this on behalf of my brother. My brother works at a restaurant where the owner requires the servers to pool all their tips, then he divides the money among the servers. However, the owner also takes a portion of the money for himself. Sometimes this amounts to hundreds of dollars he takes from the pool in a single day. He justifies this by saying he is working too. My brother says the owner usually just hangs out and drinks while at the restaurant, and sometimes helps customers. Everything I’ve read states that managers and supervisors cannot take a cut from an employee tip pool. So, my question is: Is this legal? And if not, what can my brother do about it?
Thanks for any advice.
Location: Nebraska