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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • Are you thinking not tipping would magically transform a “tipped” position (that was subject to the minimum tipped wage) into a non-tipped position (that was subject to the normal minimum wage)? What’s the threshold? A particular percentage of transactions refraining from tipping? Under a specific dollar amount of tips per worker? The employer having to supplement the tips to get it up to the minimum tipped wage more than a certain percentage of the time? Are you sure “yeah, but there’s a blank on the receipt labeled ‘tip’, so theoretically the workers could get tips” isn’t enough to make the minimum tipped wage apply? Does it vary by jurisdiction?

    Meanwhile, the real person behind the real counter of the real coffee shop you like probably regularly skips meals to afford rent.

    Even if what you’re suggesting could work, who’s to say they wouldn’t immediately replace it with some “gig economy” sort of alternative that would turn the workers into freelancers to whom no minimum wage applied?

    Yes, advocate for worker rights, but don’t kid yourself that not tipping your servers is somehow doing them a favor.





  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldMiserable summer this year
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    IANAL, but I think /r/legaladvice might say in a case like this that once you’ve communicated to your landlord that the AC is busted, you should move into a hotel until the AC is fixed, send bills for reimbursement to the landlord, and refuse to pay more than your regular rent charge. Theoretically, the courts should back you up. (Unless, again, AC isn’t considered a big enough deal to make your place uninhabitable in the eyes of the law locally.) Though also, if you don’t have enough money on hand to just go stay at a hotel, reimbursement may not be good enough to justify that plan for your particular case. I dunno. Might be worth researching your options more, though.

    Edit: LilB0kChoy has some relevant info in another comment, however, that makes it seem less likely that you’d be able to use the law in your favor here. :/


  • True story?

    I don’t know about other places, but in the U.S., generally if your house is fucked to the extent of being kindof uninhabitable (and I’d think no AC would qualify – though maybe depending on local climate, that might not so much be seen as the case?), your landlord would have to get it fixed or pay for a hotel stay until it was fixed.

    Or maybe in your case, it’s more of a condo situation where you don’t have a landlord.

    Or maybe I’m off base thinking a lack of AC in July would qualify as sufficiently uninhabitable to require your landlord to be responsible for an alternate dwelling.