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Originally Posted by amazingrace  In some states there are laws against such unethical practices. You are correct that your wife [as well as the other employees] should keep very detailed records -- day, date, time and amounts, even patrons' names if she knows them. At some point in time, hopefully very soon, this greedy, unscrupulous thief will be called for a reckoning. |
If there may be legal recourse here, your friend might want to look into that and seek legal counsel. It's quite possible that the local Legal Aid would be interested: a manager treating minimum wage employees unethically and possibly illegally is right up their alley. I don't know what other offices look into stuff like that -- Better Business Bureau, maybe? -- but Legal Aid would be able to direct her. If in fact the man's practices are technically legal but just wildly unethical, somebody like Legal Aid ought to be able to suggest what action your friend can and cannot take on her own. That is, if she does something that seems perfectly reasonable to you or me, and the boss fires her, it might turn out that the thing she did allows him to fire her without notice, whereas if she'd done something slightly different he wouldn't be able to do so and she'd have grounds against him.
At any rate, this really sounds like something where a qualified attorney ought to be giving at least baseline advice.