Tipped Employee Lawyers in Philadelphia
Assisting Clients With Tipped Employee Matters
Many Philadelphians earn tips in addition to wages, including bartenders, waiters, entertainers, hotel employees, and other restaurant workers. No matter your position, when you earn tips, your employer must follow specific labor laws regarding your regular wages, the division of your responsibilities, and the handling of your tips.
Unfortunately, many businesses and corporations have developed elaborate strategies to take advantage of and underpay tipped employees. However, Winebrake & Santillo is here to fight against these illegal practices. We help tipped workers assert their rights against businesses that have stolen their wages.
If you receive tips and your employer is stealing from you or not paying you fairly, contact our Philadelphia tipped employee attorneys for a free consultation.
Defending the Rights of Tipped Employees in Philadelphia and Beyond
If a court finds that an employer failed to follow federal and state laws protecting tipped workers, they may be ordered to pay each employee the difference between what they were paid and the federal minimum wage. For example, people who were unfairly paid $2.83 but did not meet tipped-employee requirements may be compensated $4.42 for every hour they worked. Workers may also be entitled to additional damages as a result of their employer’s unfair practices. These penalties can quickly add up to significant sums, especially for businesses that miscalculate the wages of multiple employees.
Contact Our Philadelphia Tipped Employee Attorney Today
Tipped-employee laws are exceptionally complicated, especially when it comes to things like overtime or calculating the wages of workers who fulfill multiple duties for a single business. If you work for an employer whom you suspect has violated your rights, we invite you to contact Winebrake & Santillo to discuss your case. Although we’re based in Philadelphia, we've represented workers throughout the United States.
Call (215) 866-1551 to find out why our Philadelphia tipped employee lawyers have successfully litigated more wage and hour cases than anyone else in the state.
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"Winebrake & Santillo has a considerable record in employment matters."
Winebrake & Santillo has a considerable record in employment matters.- Ricci v. Newrez LLC, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 186727, at *23 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 17, 2023) -
"Significant experience"
Attorney Andy Santillo and his co-counsel are “patently qualified” attorneys who “have significant experience with wage payment and collections cases, knowledge of wage-and-hour law, and have clearly done significant work already in this case throughout discovery and the preparation of the motions and opposition papers now before the Court."
- MARTINEZ V. AMAZON.COM SERVS. LLC, 2024 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 209566, *28, *42-43 (D. Md. Nov. 18, 2024) -
"An established record"
W&S and its co-counsel "have an established record of competent and successful prosecution of large wage and hour class actions."
- Lapan v. Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc., 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 169508, *7 (D. Mass. Dec. 11, 2015) -
"Experienced wage and hour class action litigators"
W&S and its co-counsel "are experienced wage and hour class action litigators with decades of accomplished complex class action between them and that the Class Members have benefited tremendously from able counsel’s representation."
- Craig v. Rite Aid Corp., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2658, *45 (M.D. Pa. Jan 7, 2013)
