[olliej]

But that isn’t what the tipping industry does. You are paid a certain hourly wage, and if the tip income is below a certain amount the employer has to increase the wage to compensate. They cannot however reduce your hourly pay rate after you have done the work. Because that is tip theft, simply reclassifying your income after the fact doesn’t magically make it not theft.

Because if that were allowed an employer could hire you at $20/hour (for example), and then decide at the end of your day to change your pay rate to $10/hour and that would be ok - because by your definition that isn’t wage theft.