Originally Posted by
JoshH2008
My good friend is a Skycap at one of the airport's in midwest. All Skycaps are working on tips. Every major airlines outsourced that job to a contractor long time ago. Contractor pays them way below minimum wage. Here are little tips how to use and deal with them: they basically will help you with anything as long as you "take care of them". If you don't have any money and running late for a flight just let them know. They seeing this everyday. They will help you for free in the name of customer service. Just Let them know before. Don't check then walk away without saying anything.
Not exactly. If the tips do not come up to minimum wage, the employer must make up the difference. If the tips are more, the employee keeps it.
What is the minimum wage for workers who receive tips?
An employer may pay a tipped employee not less than $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equal at least the federal minimum wage, the employee retains all tips and the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/q-a.htm