Waffle House cheats workers on pay, advocates says
CBSN
Waffle House shafts its servers out of a portion of their pay by requiring that they also wash dishes and cook, labor advocates say.
The restaurant chain engages in "rampant wage theft like performing non-tipped work for tipped wages," according to the Union of Southern Service Workers, or USSW, which filed a complaint with the Department of Labor on Thursday.
In it, the union accuses the Georgia-based corporation of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act's tip credit requirements and failure to pay servers the federal minimum wage, which has been stalled at $7.25 since 2009.

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