I am a poker dealer?

Question

I deal poker at a poker room in florida. I make $4.00 an hour plus tips. They used to take 10% of our tips to pay the supervisors, ...; when the law for unlimited poker passed (07/2007), they started taking 15% to pay the supervisors, chip runners, hostess, cashiers...; 3 weeks after that, they started to take an extra 2% (17% total) for advertisiment and promotion. I wonder, is this legal?, shouldn't companies pay for their own advertisiment?. I know I am part of the company, but why taking it from my money. I have to buy the uniform. Rumor has it that they save close to a quarter of a million a year with the 17%. The money that they take from us pays for the 401K and the hourly payment, so we pay ourselves in other words.

Answer 1

I realy dont now relay now any thing about poker but I haer its fun

Answer 2

As someone not originally from America, I am constantly astonished by what employers get away with in this country.

The way I look at it is that all staff should be paid minimum wage as a minimum.  If they earn extra money in tips, such tips should be untaxed and considered gifts from the public.

After all, if I give a tip for good service, it is a gift I have given a member of staff.

For the bosses to steal those gifts and give a percentage of them to themselves or for business expenses, seems outrageous to me.  And then to make you buy your own uniform of all things.

At the end of the day, you have to take a look at your average pre-tax earnings per hour, including tips, and see if you are doing okay.  If you are making a reasonable hourly wage that you can live on, you just have to accept what they are doing to you.

Without meaning to demean your profession, it's not the most demanding job in the world.  So if the bottom line wage you get per hour is enough to live comfortably on, then keep with it (or see if another company offers better money).  If you are not earning enough to be happy, look at another career.

Answer 3

be assuming you make a hundred dollars in tips...an extra 7% is seven dollars.     35 bucks a week......her is what you do...every day after work sit at a table for about half an hour.   when you hit a monster or the 30 minutes is up LEAVE with your 80 dollar profit.   next shift locate your dealer and give him/her 10 bucks  not to split with anybody...problen solved

Answer 4

you're getting ripped off

Answer 5

I can't answer in a legal way but my suggestion is to find another place to deal poker.

Answer 6

get out of florida. everything i hear about it makes me think it's a horrible place to live.

Answer 7

I dont think thats right....last time I had a business, advertisment was a right-off.......

might be a good point to bring up..............

Answer 8

I hope you are taking this while bent over!  If someone stuck a gun in your face and said give me your wallet you would call the cops.  By the sounds of it your employer is doing the same thing to you.  I would tell them to go fuc? themselves because you are getting robbed in the workplace by some very greedy employer!  Go find another job at a casino where your boss won't rip you off like that!!