Originally Posted by
Captain Schmidt
and as per my earlier link to the DoL web-site, federal law also requires employers to ensure that all wait staff are paid at least minimum wage including tips and must make up the difference in cases where they don't.
I don't know if it's law, but when I worked at Radio Shack for commission, if my commissions didn't add up to minimum wage, the company made up the difference. Too many weeks of making up the difference and you were let go. The alternative was to under-report hours, which I saw frequently.