As I type this I am working as a barback at a bar in Portland, Oregon. Our General Manager who is on salary, is filling in as a bartender. Our tips are pooled and tipped out at the end of the night. Our Manager is taking a cut from the pool each day/night he bartends and had been doing this multiple times through each week for the last month or so.
There is no way this is legal right? When I confronted him about it he told me to talk to our head of HR if I have a problem with it.
For the record our head of HR has had a history of answering conflict with the age old response of “if you don't like it then you can just quit”