Well it seems you commented without doing research. I’ll start you out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=q_vivC7c_1k. Why are you complacent with restaurants taking advantage over employees, but not tech companies?
Sorry for the delay; you've been some kind of banned and I didn't see your reply.
I'm not going to watch a College Humor video at all, much less pretend it's research.
What I will say is that federal law establishes up-front salary limits for tipped waitstaff such that no waitstaff will ever be paid less than $2.15 an hour (a number I feel should be much higher and pinned to a percentage of minimum wage) and in the event waitstaff does not receive sufficient tips to equal minimum wage for time worked, the restaurant is obligated to supplement the difference.
This is known, up front, by both parties.
These drivers were promised a rate of pay and not told in advance that Instacart would be intercepting tips. That's a bad-faith operation.
In addition, the real instance of wage theft here is classification of these employees as minimum-wage-exempt 1099 workers instead of payrolled W2 employees -- and the cynic in me suspects they're classified this way expressly because Instacart knows they're exempted thereby from minimum wage.
So, I agree that reform is needed, but none of the things you posted (modulo some Youtube I'm never going to watch) have been accurate or even relevant.
Which brings me back to my initial questions: did you create an account to misrepresent federal law? Why?
