Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:
In the middle of the day, whenever business is light, he asks the owner if he can step out for a nap. They say sure, go ahead. He goes home, comes back an hour later, and continues working. He keeps track of this for a whole year. Apparently, the law says if you do two shifts in one day, the second shift is overtime and you can’t pay the worker tipped wage in that case. The owners just think they’re letting him take a break, but the law says if you go home and come back, it’s a new shift. So he builds up about 100K in “unpaid back pay”.
Are you sure? I live in Illinois, and overtime is determined by the number of hours worked per week and nothing more. Or else I’m owed money too. Not that I would try to get it. (Although I do work for a giant soulless corporation…)