A restaurant in Texas is about to find out

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66. Restaurant wages

This thread brought up some memories, so a bit of a rant. One of my first jobs in the late 80s was at a fast food place. I got the job through the local job center, and was hired under Reagan's training wage program, where employees could be paid less than the federal minimum wage, and the federal government would pick up 50%. While minimum wage was 3.35, I was hired at 3.00, and my employer only had to pay 1.50/hour. I spent 90 days doing the shittiest work there, along with the other guy hired on the same day. At around day 89 both of us were fired, and the next day two more employees were hired under the same program.

The recent PPP programs and the associated fraud reminds me of this.

At the same time my sibling was a server at a national casual dining establishment. She discovered that the manager was doing bad math with time sheets. The manager was using minutes for the divisor. So, for example, if you worked 45 minutes, which should be 75% of the hours worked, you only got paid for 45% of the hours worked. They had been doing it for years.