The FLSA allows employers to pool some tips of restaurant servers. However, often these tip pools are illegal and take money from the servers that earned the money. If this occurs the servers may have a right to claim the lost money, unpaid wages and overtime.
Tennessee Employment Lawyer Jon Street discusses tip pooling:
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