I work at a restaurant in Seattle and the owner keeps 100% of the tips. I would like to know if this is illegal of not. Usually he sits behind the counter doing very little, if anything at all. I also work 9-hour shifts and am given my 30 min. break an hour and a half into my shift and am expected to work the remaining 7 hours of my shift without another break. Employees are not allowed to sit down at any point during their shift, and he has even tried to demand that we ask him directly for permission to use the bathroom. Not to mention the multitude of health code violations I witness on an hourly basis (I have seen the owner, himself, drop a spoon on the floor, pick it up and put it back in with the other "clean" spoons to be used on the food we serve).
This isn't the half of it (or even an eighth).
This isn't the half of it (or even an eighth).
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