Overtime Laws
Babysitters, Nannies, and Domestic Help
Misclassification of Overtime
U.S. Federal Overtime Law
Fair Labor Standards Act
Overtime for Waiters and Waitresses
Required Lunch Break
Comp Time in lieu of Overtime

Overtime for Waiters and Waitresses

Waiters, Waitresses and Overtime

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Did you know that in many countries, like France, tips are typically built into the customer’s tab? This ensures fair pay for the hard working waiters and waitresses.
Does your restaurant do this for you? Or are you instead required to slave over demanding and rude customers and simply be at the whim of the customers for the amount of the tip they decide to leave, if any?
It’s time to fight back against this injustice. Your secret weapon may be the federal overtime laws. When you work over 40 hours in a given week, you are entitled to overtime pay at one and a half times the federal minimum wage, not your sub-minimum hourly wage usually paid to you. And, did you know, certain tip-pooling and other arrangements by restaurants used to rob you of pay or overtime to which you are entitled are illegal? The up-scale “Chez Robert” found out about this fact the hard way and paid over $400,000 in damages to their waiters and waitresses as a result.