Comment on Rebasing Ethics

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:46:34 GMT

They are employees and they should be getting normal salaries.

Maybe they should be, but In American restaurants, they aren't -- it can even in some places be permissible to pay them less than the minimum wage in the expectation that average (voluntary) tips from customers will bring their total compensation above the minimum wage. It might not be an efficient method of payment, but in the American context it isn't a method that one can unilaterally do away with.

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