As the title says, my boss may be committing wage theft but I'm not entirely certain, thus I beseech this subreddit. Some background, I've worked as a host at a restaurant for a grand total of two days now, and the pay policy for hosts at this particular restaurant is that we make 7.25/hr but get a small percentage of tip payout. However, according to my boss, hosts in the “training period” do not receive this tip payout. Yesterday, that being my first day, I did receive actual training and most of my time was spent familiarizing myself with the responsibilities and layout of the building.
Today however there was no such training, I simply did the job in its entirety, today also happened to be incredibly busy, and so the people receiving tips and tip pay outs earned a lot of money. I was not one of these people, despite, again, doing the job with zero training at all today. I requested to my boss that I be put on the normal hosting wage today, and was denied.
The contract I signed makes zero mention of any training period. Is this me overreacting to standard procedure, or is there a case for wage theft here?
Edit: Wage theft may have been the wrong word to use, I'm not entirely familiar with the terminology.