Restaurant workers and unemployment
Posted 07-05-2015 at 08:35 AM by Klins1228
Hi, I really need your help; I'm working at a restaurant, we make between 800$ to 1000$ a week with the tips, but now my boss want to get tip of us, some of us been working there over 10 years, so he's starting to use dirty and nasty way but legal to make us quit, he change the restaurant policy to a NO tip restaurant and pay us minimum wages and charge the customer 9.% of admin fee ( goes to the owner) .
So now we make less that half what we use to make,
It been 3 weeks so far with the new policy, no one have quit yet, only the new hired quit
.
So it didn't work for him that well, so he's starting to cut hours to us, some works only 2 days.
what can we do? Can we applied for unemployment? Can we quit and collect? Or can we collect and work? We can make a living now,
He can't fire us and want us to quit, in the mean time he's looking for us to make a mistake and fire us with a reason, he even hired new people just to walk around and ask customers if the server did something no good, also hired other to just tell customers to no leave tips.
Also I would like you guys help me spread the words to the social media about this owner dirty work.
The restaurant name is Ichiumi in NYC.
Thanks
So now we make less that half what we use to make,
It been 3 weeks so far with the new policy, no one have quit yet, only the new hired quit
.So it didn't work for him that well, so he's starting to cut hours to us, some works only 2 days.
what can we do? Can we applied for unemployment? Can we quit and collect? Or can we collect and work? We can make a living now,
He can't fire us and want us to quit, in the mean time he's looking for us to make a mistake and fire us with a reason, he even hired new people just to walk around and ask customers if the server did something no good, also hired other to just tell customers to no leave tips.
Also I would like you guys help me spread the words to the social media about this owner dirty work.
The restaurant name is Ichiumi in NYC.
Thanks
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If I were in your position I would contact my state Workforce Association.
I wish you and work co-workers luck.Posted 07-09-2015 at 02:46 PM by frederickia
