Originally Posted by utedrummer

Why am I the one that has to pony up their money? They work for the hotel, the hotel should pay them! That why we pay the hotel. The logic that the company/owner can get away with paying them less because of tips is wrong, its wrong for the company to assume that and try and justify their crap pay, its wrong for the employee to accept crap pay on that assumption and its wrong for us to supplement the hotels practice of it with tips just becasue they get paid bad.
Imagine if someone did happen to tip you as they walked off the plane, would it be ok for the company to deduct some amount from your check because of that tip? If it kept happening would it be ok for the next CBA to lower your salary because its just easier to take it out of your base salary initially than to deduct it from every flight. I dont think so. So why can a the hotel (and restaurants for that matter) do it? Its a premeditated paycheck dedution because they were tipped.
Again, its not my job to pay their wages, thats why I pay the hotel (and the resturant)