You May Be Owed Unpaid Wages or Tips
Paraclete Law Group helps Florida hospitality workers recover unpaid wages, stolen tips, and off-the-clock hours. If you've worked as a server, bartender, valet, or other tipped worker in Florida in the past 3 years, you may have a case and you may be owed more than you think.
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Unpaid Wages & Stolen Tips Recovery for Florida Servers, Bartenders & Tipped Workers
Paraclete Law Group represents tipped and hourly workers across Florida in claims for unpaid wages, unrelated and excessive side-work, withheld or illegally pooled tips, unpaid overtime, improperly adjusted time sheets, and time worked off the clock. Paraclete Law Group also represents minimum wage workers across Florida who are missing a paycheck, or who haven't been paid for all hours worked. You don't need to know the law to know something felt wrong on your paycheck. That's what the free case review is for.
Common Ways Florida Employers Shortchange Tipped Workers
If any of these sound familiar, it's worth having your situation reviewed:
Illegal tip pooling
You were required to share tips with managers, owners, cooks, dishwashers, or other back-of-house staff who don't customarily receive tips.
Off-the-clock work
You were told to clock out and keep working, set up before a shift, or close after clocking out.
Excessive side work
You spent significant time on side work unrelated to your tipped occupation (deep cleaning, stocking, etc.) while being paid the tip credited wage.
No tip-credit notice
Your employer never properly told you, in writing, that it was paying you a reduced tipped wage, and there is no signage posted in the area you worked that reflects this tipped wage.
Flat-rate or under-the-table pay
You were paid a set amount per shift, in cash, or with no real records kept, or you were only paid with tips you received and no real wage.
Forced to cover walkouts
Your had to pay for customer walkouts, register shortages, or broken items.
Inaccurately altered timesheets
A manager or supervisor edited your time records to cut hours you worked.
Unpaid Overtime
You worked more than 40 hours in a week and weren't paid proper overtime.
Paid in tips only
Your employer paid you nothing beyond tips, instead of the required cash wage on top of them.
Paid less than minimum wage
You noticed your paystubs did not accurately reflect the state's minimum wage, and/or your pay rate was not increased by October 1st each year.
How Much Could You Be Owed?
It often adds up to far more than people expect. When an employer underpays a tipped worker, the law may let you recover the wages you were shortchanged plus an equal amount in additional damages - in other words, potentially double the unpaid amount. Over months or years of shifts, even a small shortfall per hour can grow into a substantial claim.
Deadlines apply. Federal wage law generally reaches back two years (or three years for willful violations), and Florida's minimum wage protections may reach back as much as 5 years. The sooner you have your situation reviewed, the more of your unpaid wages you can typically protect.
Who We Help
- Servers, waiters, and waitresses
- Bartenders and barbacks
- Bussers, food runners, and hosts
- Valets and bellhops
- Hotel, resort, and club staff
- Delivery drivers and other tipped or hourly employees
- Minimum wage employees
Why Florida Workers Choose Paraclete Law Group
No fees unless we win
We handle wage cases on contingency - you owe no attorney fees unless we recover money for you.
Free, confidential review
Your case review costs nothing and stays private. Talking to us does not commit you to anything.
Built for working people
We make it simple to start, explain everything in plain language, and handle the legal side so you can keep living your life.
Local Florida focus
We represent hospitality and hourly workers throughout the state.