a friend of mine works for CFA in our small town. recently, they told me that the lemonade machine broke during their shift. the owner of the restaurant told the crew that the money to replace the machine would be coming from the paychecks of the crew that was working when the machine broke.
shortly after that incident, a girl walked off her shift during her break. i think she was making $10 an hour. when she walked off, the manager said that instead of being paid her normal rate, they were going to reduce her pay to minimum wage. all the hours she worked that day before she walked off would be paid minimum wage instead of her normal rate.
this does not seem legal at all. most of the employees are high schoolers or college-aged, so they don’t have a ton of resources to fight back. do y’all have any recommendations?