Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Is it legal for a floor manager/bouncer to demand money from waitresses at the end of their shifts?

I work in a small private bar with a very small staff. Recently, there was a change with the head waitress being fired and the bouncer taking over as floor and waitress manager. The only thing he has to do is write a very basic schedule for four people and make sure we have completed our tasks at the end of the night. Now he is demanding that every waitress should give him a "manager fee" of five dollars each. Is this even legal? The average tips per waitress even on weekends are not usually over 75 dollars. And the "manager" is not helping wait tables, clean, or any other of the waitress job duties so I would not think that tip pooling applies in this situation. Can I legally hold them accountable for this?

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