Sentence examples for earn gratuities from inspiring English sources
Sawant had opposed the phase-in provision that gave larger businesses some lead time before raising wages, and another that allowed restaurants to claim a temporary "tip credit" for workers who earn gratuities.
It said in a statement: "If a member of staff does not earn enough gratuities they will not be made to pay us".
There is not the slightest chance that my employer would otherwise compensate me anywhere near what I earn in voluntary gratuities.
The gratuities earned by servers like herself at several Montana hotels were renamed "service" or "setup" fees, according to a class-action lawsuit Walter filed last year.
Proponents of a higher minimum wage, however, say the onus shouldn't be on workers to demand the difference from their bosses when they don't earn a legal wage after gratuities.
Some states have increased the tipped minimum wage on their own as well -- and Washington, like six other states, has no tipped minimum wage at all, so servers earn a full $9.04 before gratuities.
Even though employers are required to make up any shortfall between the tipped minimum and the standard minimum if gratuities fall short, one in 10 workers earn less than the minimum wage, the White House said.
But a growing number of drivers are now saying that Uber is pulling a bait-and-switch, and that aggressive UberX price cuts, lack of gratuities, and an opaque driver ratings system have made it impossible to earn a living working for the service.
In a case in which the employees of the dining fleet World Yacht claimed that the company had not shared the mandatory service charges with them, the court ruled that if "a reasonable patron" would believe that a service charge was a gratuity, then the entire amount must go to the members of the service staff (who may already earn an average of $20 or more an hour at private events).
In the late 1800s, plantation owners William Thomas Eldridge and W.L. Dunovant reportedly paid the gratuity to railroad owners that earned the town its name.
