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<blockquote data-quote="audioholic" data-source="post: 6716822" data-attributes="member: 549629">I cannot tell if you now get my point, that salary + tips MUST equal minimum wage or higher, otherwise the employer must pay the difference... or if you still have not read my previous posts closely enough to see that Im including tips when I say the employer MUST pay the difference, BY LAW, if salary + tips does not reach federal minimum wage limits. Either way, your comments are simply wrong.&quot;Today, a similar policy applies to tips. Under federal law, most employers of a tipped employee are only required to pay $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the federal minimum wage. If an employee’s tips combined with the employer’s direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.&quot; - <a href="http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/minimum-wage-for-tipped-employees.aspx" target="_blank">Legal Lad : Minimum Wage for Tipped Employees :: Quick and Dirty Tips </a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="audioholic, post: 6716822, member: 549629"] I cannot tell if you now get my point, that salary + tips MUST equal minimum wage or higher, otherwise the employer must pay the difference... or if you still have not read my previous posts closely enough to see that Im including tips when I say the employer MUST pay the difference, BY LAW, if salary + tips does not reach federal minimum wage limits. Either way, your comments are simply wrong. [I]"Today, a similar policy applies to tips. Under federal law, most employers of a tipped employee are only required to pay $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the federal minimum wage. If an employee’s tips combined with the employer’s direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference."[/I] - [URL="http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/minimum-wage-for-tipped-employees.aspx"]Legal Lad : Minimum Wage for Tipped Employees :: Quick and Dirty Tips [/URL] [/QUOTE]

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