location: texas
i work at a cold stone. when i was hired i was making $10 an hour. i approached my manager to ask for a raise a couple months after being hired where he told me he’d already given me a dollar raise. which is cool but i thought it was weird that i was never informed about the raise i got. i used to work at a subway and our checks were through the company and stated the rate we made hourly how much money in tips we got all the taxes removed etc. but here we get handwritten personal checks not ones through the company so i’m not able to see my rate or tips or anything on my checks.
i asked for my pay stubs yesterday to find out my hourly rate is $8. k told my coworker i got my pay stub and might quit and he said “let me guess you’re making $3 less than he told you”. i talked to some other coworkers no one makes hourly the amount we were initially told.
when i was hired i was told it would be $10 an hour plus tips. subtracting the $3 i would’ve been making $7 an hour plus tips (i believe minimum wage is $7.25 but i guess plus tips the hourly rate wouldn’t matter similar to how servers are paid im not really sure). but regardless me and my coworkers were not told it would be $7 plus tips we were told it would be $10 plus tips.
i was wondering what the legality of this situation would be. thank yall so much!
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do you have a copy of your contract with your pay rate written on it ? also So your pay stub is an official one? or is it also something handwritten
It really depends on what was told and actually earned. As far as Texas is involved and the federal government if you make 7.25 you meet min wage. If they want to figure out how they’ll pay you more is up to them. They can take a tip credit to offset your wages.
NAL but what do you mean they are hand written personal checks? Are they written from the franchise owners personal account or business account? Cold stone is a franchise/owner operator company, any issues you have you can report and ask the corporate HR.
This is common when working in the service industry in east cost and southern states, they say you make so much a hour but only pay the bare minimum and say tips make up for it. This is how they advertise to get people to join but are shady about actual hourly rates.