My wife is going to be contacting the labor board in the next week, but I was wondering if anyone else knows the legality of this situation. Especially with a few business owners on the board.
Basically my wife’s boss/employer is taking $1 per Client to pay for renovations to the front of the building, and she has stated she needs $10k to redo the parking lot in the spring. Each employee that works there must sacrifice $1 per client to pay for these business renovations. No contract was signed agreeing to this or anything. We did the math and between all the employees, those dollars add up to over $12,000 a year.
I doubt she’s an hourly W-2 if she gets paid per client, Spam… Unless she gets like $4/hr + Client %
I know they can take it from you if you’re hourly above minimum… and take an hours worth of pay from you… Like say she makes $10/hr + tips, the owner can knock her down to $9 + tips and put the $1 towards whatever the owner wants to do. Sure it’s not a good business practice, but it’s business. As long as they make minimum.
But if they’re below minimum and make commission, I have no idea… Which I assume is your case since the owner is taking $1 per client.
Labor board is your best bet.
$1 per client, 3-4 per hour… $32/day, $160/wk on a 40/hr wk… That’s a nice chunk of change out of her pocket for something that doesn’t concern her or profit her at all.
My girl works for a shittily (ha) managed salon as well, but I doubt even they’d pull some shit like this.
paid minimum + tips (which of course isn’t factored into anything). I’m not exactly sure how commission works there, I believe it’s based off of how much you bring in that week.
For the time being, I’ll leave the name out of it. I wrote the total wrong above, her boss has made over 12,000 from all the girls over the course of a few years with this practice. It is still a good amount of money taken from her yearly.
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AHAHAHAH her boss can barely operate a computer, there is no handbook. She has like no business skills at all.
This is 100% illegal. You can deduct garnishments/child support, employee benefits,and taxes. That is it. Call the labor board and file a dispute. They will investigate the employer and they will check all of the pay records, hour records,and proof they are giving proper break/meal periods to the employee. Every employee will be interviewed so it will be anonymous. I recently parted ways with a company that had 6 figures in labor law violations last year.
It may not be illegal depending on how they are compensated. If there is no written policy she may get away with it. If she were renting a chair it could be totally legal but…
