Waffle House cheats workers on pay, advocates says

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.