Other than a few states it is....?
2007-12-09 16:17:17 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Waitresses do not get minimum wage... they get right around 1/2 of min. wage and depend on tips to make up the difference. And this is legal
2007-12-09 16:20:32 · answer #1 · answered by j 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have a law stating the minimum wage. Its set to go up soon, but either way the lowest legally paid worker in the US is anyone making minimum wage. Current minimum wage puts anyone who lives alone and makes that amount at $2000 below the national poverty line.
2007-12-09 16:26:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Waitstaff make like 2.15 an hour, plus tips, if they get any. Some people work purely on commission and sometimes don't make anything at all. Everyone else has to either get the federal minimum wage or whatever their state has raised their state minimum wage to above the federal minimum.
2007-12-09 16:52:17 · answer #3 · answered by I Love Howie Carr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably a waitress, because they work on tips-there is an exception to them in the Minimum pay laws.
so legally-they can earn like three bucks a night, even on the books, but because they work on tips-they can get more than the average joe as well.
So depends on the perspective.
2007-12-09 16:20:44 · answer #4 · answered by Rea H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The real workers in america get paid the least........the hands on work
2007-12-09 16:59:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The people who harvest our food by hand. Picking oranges, tomatoes, potato's, that sort of thing.
It's no fun to be a migrant farm worker.
2007-12-09 16:23:03 · answer #6 · answered by Citizen1984 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Home care workers are exempt from pay laws!
2007-12-09 16:20:10 · answer #7 · answered by Beau 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
should be around 7.50 or so, but waiters and waitresses are exempt from minimum wage laws because they receive tips.
I bet there're waiters who are paid $5 an hour excl. tip.
2007-12-09 16:19:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they don't have to pay waiters and waitresses the minimum wage because they get tips.
2007-12-09 16:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by Little Red Hen 2.0 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Farm workers funniest part is they are union ! Cesar Chavez got them one heck of a deal didn't he !!
2007-12-09 16:22:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋