There are laws in place for service workers related to minimum wage. The employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t meet the rate for hours worked. It seems to me that’s not sufficient for the times.
Hypothetically, if everyone were to stop tipping in the U.S. would things be better or worse for workers? Would employers start paying workers more?
The real irritation is that British Columbia has a tipping culture where pretty much everywhere is asking for 10-25% tip.
Restaurant staff aren’t exempted from minimum wage here like in the US, so its pure greed on the owners part.
BC budtender. My managers are out-of-touch crazies that enabled tipping (5%/10%/25%) because, ‘they feel bad we don’t make much money’, paraphrased.
That’s great, love hearing that from my lake-house owning mega-rich hippie manager, but I’ve already posted a rant here about how my month’s wage of part-time work is easily paid in a day of work with their ludicrous profit margins. 50% on cannabis where I saw 30% in the liquor industry. They can pay me a livable wage, they choose not to.
I have compounding evidence that they’re shitty people wearing masks of integrity and compassion and I hate it.
Greed sucks :(