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tips and gratuities are one of those
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places where employees need to
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understand that they have more rights
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than they may think they have it’s also
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one of the rare places where we can take
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our expertise as employment lawyers and
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maybe turn things around last year we
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were able to resolve a case where
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delivery drivers weren’t being given the
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tips and gratuities that were being
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collected by the employer on their
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behalf for technical reasons in that
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case we weren’t able to sue on behalf of
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the employees but what we discovered is
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that we could sue on behalf of the
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customers and we were able to reach a
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resolution on a class-wide basis that
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addressed this practice and got
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compensation for the folks who’d had
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their money taken