I recently found out one of the high end grocery stores here requires their employees to turn in their tips. They then claim to forward it to a charity bearing their name. They also give some kind of gift card to the employee, I’m not sure if the card meets the amount of the tips seized or not.
Can anyone weigh in on this? I hear a lot of phrases here like wage theft, in regards to bar owners taking the tip jar home. But as much as I normally love it, spare me the rhetoric & discussions of theory.
The state is MN, if this is something that changes state to state. In the past I have had jobs where you were required to refuse tips, but I’ve never heard of seizing them before.