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Le Saboteur
Dec 5, 2007

I hear you wish to ball, adventurer..
So toxic not even Andrew Scheer will gently caress with ya.

https://twitter.com/cath_cullen/status/949105660091928581

Le Saboteur fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jan 5, 2018

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cougar cub
Jun 28, 2004

HookShot posted:

What the gently caress how is that legal?

The idea being over the course of a shift a server will come out ahead even when taking the bills with no tips into account.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

cougar cub posted:

The idea being over the course of a shift a server will come out ahead even when taking the bills with no tips into account.

Yeah, that's the premise, but how is it legal to deduct from a server's wages to "tip out" back of house, rather than actually taking money from the tip pool (i.e. something that is not part of their mandated wage)?

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe

Le Saboteur posted:

So toxic not even Andrew Scheer will gently caress with ya.

https://twitter.com/cath_cullen/status/949105660091928581

"Hunter gatherers want something for nothing! Now let me tell you about the only honourable way to make a living; rent seeking!"

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005

cougar cub posted:

The idea being over the course of a shift a server will come out ahead even when taking the bills with no tips into account.

Yeah, but charging employees money based on the number of tables they serve surely has to break some sort of labour laws?

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

HookShot posted:

What the gently caress how is that legal?

it isn't

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line
I want to go ahead and say that maybe the thread shouldn't devolve into a tipping argument, because it is a terrible waste of time and energy expended between a few people who actually work or have worked in the industry, and a bunch of people who haven't

that being said, I am totally ready to get my tipping argument posting on if you guys are

James Baud
May 24, 2015

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
.

James Baud fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Aug 26, 2018

cougar cub
Jun 28, 2004

infernal machines posted:

Yeah, that's the premise, but how is it legal to deduct from a server's wages to "tip out" back of house, rather than actually taking money from the tip pool (i.e. something that is not part of their mandated wage)?

My assumption is that as long as a server makes minimum wage over the course of a shift it doesn’t matter.

Fake efb

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line
iirc tips, even over credit card, are not considered as paid wages (however they are considered income) - so any deductions a restaurant made from those would at best be garnishing wages, and otherwise would just be straight up theft

cougar cub
Jun 28, 2004

The step before income is where the employer decides how to divide tips out.

https://work.alberta.ca/documents/employment-standards-guide-for-hospitality-industry.pdf

JawKnee
Mar 24, 2007





You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line
looks like things are handled differently in Alberta then, compared to BC, where the wording is more precise:

quote:

Non-wages:

Subsection (f)

Gratuities (tips) are not wages unless used to pay an employer’s business costs. Gratuities are paid by customers to the person who served them in appreciation for the service. While tips are considered income for income tax purposes, they are not wages for purposes of this Act. Since tips are not paid by the employer to the employee for work performed, they are not wages, therefore, the Director has no jurisdiction over tips.

However, under s.21(3), an employer may not use tips to cover a business cost. Gratuities used to pay an employer’s business costs are deemed by this section to be wages under the Act.

Employers can require employees to pool their tips, and to share them with those employees who work in positions that otherwise have no access to tips.

Example

An employer requires all employees who receive tips to put 15% of tips received into a pool. The pool is disbursed to all employees who do not receive tips at the end of each shift according to a formula agreed to by the employees. This activity does not contravene the Act.

Employers cannot deduct from a tip pool, or from tips to which the employer has access, such as those made through debit or credit cards. An employer may not charge an employee for costs such as a "dine-and-dash fund".

Example

An employer requires all tips paid through credit or debit cards to be put in a tip pool. At the end of each month, after paying for dine-and-dash meals, for spillage, and for breakage, the employer distributes the residual to all employees. This activity is a contravention of the Act.

Jan
Feb 27, 2008

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

infernal machines posted:

Yeah, that's the premise, but how is it legal to deduct from a server's wages to "tip out" back of house, rather than actually taking money from the tip pool (i.e. something that is not part of their mandated wage)?

No, but you see, if they want good wages, they have to pull themselves up from their bootstraps and distinguish themselves from their lesser peers rather than relying on some socialist tip pool.

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Le Saboteur posted:

So toxic not even Andrew Scheer will gently caress with ya.

https://twitter.com/cath_cullen/status/949105660091928581

"Racism will not be tolerated in the Conservative Party of Canada" lmao gently caress off scheer

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




CLAM DOWN posted:

"Racism will not be tolerated in the Conservative Party of Canada" lmao gently caress off scheer

Barbaric cultural practices phone line? Sounds like a Liberal thing to me!

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret

CLAM DOWN posted:

"Racism will not be tolerated in the Conservative Party of Canada" lmao gently caress off scheer

Only Dog Whistles of 21 kHZ or higher will be tolerated.

Kraftwerk
Aug 13, 2011
i do not have 10,000 bircoins, please stop asking

My stance on tipping is that it feels mandatory, so just include it in the price so I don't have to feel embarassed when inflation has raised my 15% recommended to 21% recommended.

I tip my pizza delivery guy 2 bucks and my coworker tells me it should be 3-4 now.

I don't have time to think about or put in the work to figure out what is decent and what isn't so gently caress ya'll just throw whatever percentage as a "Service charge" and leave me alone.

EDIT: I'm never eating at Sunrise Grill again. I've sized up every manager/owner at every location I've visited and they're all massive douches. I could just SENSE they were exploiting their employees. The body language and the way he carried himself vs the servers told me everything. Glad to see my assumptions are confirmed.

Kraftwerk fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jan 5, 2018

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

https://twitter.com/TabathaSouthey/status/949113630108172291

yeah,

Rockstar Massacre
Mar 2, 2009

i only have a crazy life
because i make risky decisions
from a position of
unreasonable self-confidence

Kraftwerk posted:

I tip my pizza delivery guy 2 bucks and my coworker tells me it should be 3-4 now.

delivery drivers aren't the same as servers. usually drivers are still under that 'contractor' bs and have no guarantee of minimum wage, and usually have to pay their own car and portion of gas.

not always, though. every franchise is different.

tagesschau
Sep 1, 2006

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
THE SPEECH SUPPRESSOR


Remember: it's "antisemitic" to protest genocide as long as the targets are brown.

Kraftwerk posted:

inflation has raised my 15% recommended to 21% recommended.

Anyone who tells you that either doesn't understand how inflation works or is lying to you. If a restaurant raises prices by 5%, your tip goes up by the same amount. No change in percentage necessary.

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Unrepentant racism isn't allowed. You're supposed to backpedal and pretend to apologize if someone calls you on it.

bunnyofdoom
Mar 29, 2008

I've been here the whole time, and you're not my real Dad! :emo:
So in different news, jobs report dropped. Lowest unemployment rate in 40 years. 78600 jobs added in Dec. CAD gained a cent on USD.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
What do we consider "unemployment" these days?

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

A rock has no detectable opinion about gravity

infernal machines posted:

What do we consider "unemployment" these days?

The lack of Kijiji job postings

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
Eliminate tipping and commission, force all employers to pay employees a fair, livable wage regardless of performance or whether or not they can trick the customer into the extended warranties.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

EvidenceBasedQuack posted:

The lack of Kijiji job postings

I guess the proper question is what do we consider "employment" these days

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

DariusLikewise posted:

Eliminate tipping and commission, force all employers to pay employees a fair, livable wage regardless of performance or whether or not they can trick the customer into the extended warranties.

Employment is down 3%, but completely accidental kitchen fires are up nearly 1900%.

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

infernal machines posted:

I guess the proper question is what do we consider "employment" these days

The job numbers went up in December because of all the people getting paid by neighbours to shovel snow.

EvidenceBasedQuack
Aug 15, 2015

A rock has no detectable opinion about gravity
There's definitely a need for a meaningful employment metric. As in stable work with living wages.
:confuoot:

A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011
Lol at the idiots in this thread being surprised by business owners stealing from their wage slaves

like thats literally how the system is designed to work

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

bunnyofdoom posted:

So in different news, jobs report dropped. Lowest unemployment rate in 40 years. 78600 jobs added in Dec. CAD gained a cent on USD.

"Those are the numbers for Canada. What about Ontario specifically?"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

RBC
Nov 23, 2007

IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888
lol the margin of error

Postess with the Mostest
Apr 4, 2007

Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes

bunnyofdoom posted:

So in different news, jobs report dropped. Lowest unemployment rate in 40 years. 78600 jobs added in Dec. CAD gained a cent on USD.

No no, this is how you do it

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948738634722742273

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

"Tremendous upward potential" = "We can't fall off the floor"

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



We need these new jobs because the powers that be tell me that crippling new $14-$15/hour minimum wages are going to kill 60,000 jobs across the country.

My favourite part was reading comments that minimum wage increases are pointless because they will push up rents and prices of basic goods. This was in reference to an article predicting that inflation would rise by a whopping 0.1% as a result of minimum wage hikes.

Supposedly, increasing minimum wages won't have much of an impact on poverty because most minimum wage earners are young people in relatively well-off families. Nonetheless, I haven't seen a single compelling argument for why minimum wages should be well below a living wage, as they are in many places now.

Grammar-Bolshevik
Oct 12, 2017

eXXon posted:

We need these new jobs because the powers that be tell me that crippling new $14-$15/hour minimum wages are going to kill 60,000 jobs across the country.

My favourite part was reading comments that minimum wage increases are pointless because they will push up rents and prices of basic goods. This was in reference to an article predicting that inflation would rise by a whopping 0.1% as a result of minimum wage hikes.

Supposedly, increasing minimum wages won't have much of an impact on poverty because most minimum wage earners are young people in relatively well-off families. Nonetheless, I haven't seen a single compelling argument for why minimum wages should be well below a living wage, as they are in many places now.

The minimum wage will make some jobs unviable, but also raise the incomes of far more workers.

In Ontario 29.4 percent of workers in 2014 were minimum wage workers, based on estimates the hike will cost anywhere from 30k to 100k jobs. (No one actually knows) No matter how you look at the math more people are benefiting from the hikes.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/low-wage-work-skyrocketing-ontario-study

If there isn't enough surplus value in someone's hourly labour to make it to 14$ an hour then the position probably shouldn't exist anyways.

If you are going to tackle income inequality that has been the structural trend in the west for the last few decades (largely a consequence of technology an automation) you're going to need to make policy to alleviate that or society is going to suck.

I think what we are seeing in the social media domain are people with contrarian brain patterns feeling personal gratification by advocating the status quo over change.

Grammar-Bolshevik fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jan 5, 2018

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

"The loss of 60,000 jobs" out of how many? A hundred thousand? A million? Ten?

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

eXXon posted:

We need these new jobs because the powers that be tell me that crippling new $14-$15/hour minimum wages are going to kill 60,000 jobs across the country.

My favourite part was reading comments that minimum wage increases are pointless because they will push up rents and prices of basic goods. This was in reference to an article predicting that inflation would rise by a whopping 0.1% as a result of minimum wage hikes.

Supposedly, increasing minimum wages won't have much of an impact on poverty because most minimum wage earners are young people in relatively well-off families. Nonetheless, I haven't seen a single compelling argument for why minimum wages should be well below a living wage, as they are in many places now.

My main problem is the sense from government that they're dusting their hands off and going "job well done" as if giving people a little more income is all they need but the government won't do anything about the expenses side of the equation that can and will crush people even with a couple more bucks and hour, like the sad joke of housing non-affordability or food costs or public transit fares or banks nickel-and-diming customers or energy costs, etc.

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
Institute Executive pay multiplier caps

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Postess with the Mostest
Apr 4, 2007

Arabian nights
'neath Arabian moons
A fool off his guard
could fall and fall hard
out there on the dunes

eXXon posted:

Nonetheless, I haven't seen a single compelling argument for why minimum wages should be well below a living wage, as they are in many places now.

Here: I'm wearing all sweat shop clothing typing this on a phone made by a 8 year old chinese child working 15 hour shifts while drinking coffee made from beans picked by 3rd world non unionized indentured servants. There is no canadian identity or culture and nationalism would be racist so I just care about my fellow canadians the same as those people and I don't want to pay more because my pickup truck payments are killing me. Also, I can't taste the difference between cage eggs and free range. I am canadian.

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