Restaurant employees turn to TMJ4 after claiming they are not being paid

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
  • Last week, an anonymous tip came into TMJ4's newsroom about a situation unfolding at Jake's Restaurant in Brookfield. The tip said that employee's paychecks were bouncing when they deposited them, and that the state had come and shut the restaurant down.
    On Wednesday, June 19th, Jenna Rae went to Jake's. A sign on the door said it was closed for maintenance. Rae knocked anyways.
    The general manager opened the door and said the owner wasn't there. Rae left her card for the owner to call her, but never heard from him.
    Today, we talked with three employees who said their paychecks have bounced more than once, and they want their money.
    The employees from Jake's Restaurant wanted to protect their identities by being anonymous.
    "They bounced right when we have to pay our bills. We have to pay our rent and stuff," employee one said.
    READ MORE: www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/...
    _________________________
    TMJ4 News in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is your source for local breaking news, in-depth investigations, the latest weather and traffic, and livestreams on news happening right now.
    Subscribe to the TMJ4 CZcams channel: / @tmj4
    Watch 24/7 TMJ4 live coverage here: www.tmj4.com/live
    Download the TMJ4 app: www.tmj4.com/apps
    Sign up for the TMJ4 Newsletter: www.tmj4.com/newsletters
    Watch more TMJ4 on CZcams: / @tmj4
    On The Go with James Groh: on.tmj4.com/3V1oLvH
    Milwaukee Tonight: on.tmj4.com/3UZroya

Komentáře • 36

  • @DrGaryGreen
    @DrGaryGreen Před 8 dny +10

    Back in the 80s, La Petite France as it was failing, tried to pull this no-pay stunt. The owner found himself surrounded by a very angry kitchen staff and ended up paying us all cash. Restaurant owners are assholes.

    • @Echelon730
      @Echelon730 Před 8 dny +2

      When you pay your staff a slave wage you just see them as slaves and treat them as such

    • @Trackratz-zl9di
      @Trackratz-zl9di Před 7 dny +1

      When the first check bounces RUN don't walk as fast as you can

  • @theresehopkins1581
    @theresehopkins1581 Před dnem +1

    Cash checks at the bank they're drawn on.... never deposit them into your account! 😊

  • @preciousowusu7743
    @preciousowusu7743 Před 6 dny +3

    Jake is a snake.

  • @cannkotlarz621
    @cannkotlarz621 Před 3 dny

    I laughed when the guy said " i tried to quit" if you want to quit then do so.

  • @orangechickengorl
    @orangechickengorl Před 8 dny +5

    Jake’s don’t pay!

  • @crescentjones5612
    @crescentjones5612 Před 4 dny

    Is jake alive!?

  • @Echelon730
    @Echelon730 Před 8 dny +4

    Oh would you look at that, a restaurant owner not paying their employees a fair wage... or a wage at all.
    This is why need to end tip wages, and increase IRS funding. So many small business owners are corrupt as fuck. They just hide behind the "I am a local business" innocent mask, and people will bend over backwards for them, and not realizing they are fucking over their 5 other neighbors and themselves.

    • @dyates6380
      @dyates6380 Před 7 dny +1

      LOL. Um, WHAT? By that reasoning you'd put the few restaurants still in business out of business. I'm not condoning this restaurant not paying these people what they owe them, but what are you talking about? What is "IRS funding"? 😂😂😂😂😂. IRS "FUNDING"???????? Bernie, please, stop. LOL.

  • @MrBobochow
    @MrBobochow Před 8 dny +5

    Business owners especially Restaurants are susceptible to economic downturns. Exactly why Banks don’t borrow to Restaurants unless well funded.

    • @NONAME-ut6vb
      @NONAME-ut6vb Před 8 dny

      Facts

    • @romktch17
      @romktch17 Před 7 dny +1

      ​@@NONAME-ut6vb"I illegally and simply, don't want to pay my employees in order for me to still have money"
      Did any of you graduate college?

    • @audraarndt1824
      @audraarndt1824 Před 5 dny +1

      Wont "loan."

    • @jannibal9273
      @jannibal9273 Před 5 dny +2

      If he was going broke the owner should have closed down the restaurant rather than cheating hard-working people who trusted him.

    • @MrBobochow
      @MrBobochow Před 4 dny

      It’s like one arm bandits you keep playing thinking the next pull you’ll strike it rich …

  • @user-jn9gv9ve6e
    @user-jn9gv9ve6e Před 8 dny +1

    there are government agency's that take care of this problem.

  • @mrhamburger6936
    @mrhamburger6936 Před 8 dny +4

    Sounds like a economic issue that's what used to happen during the Great depression rubber checks

    • @romktch17
      @romktch17 Před 8 dny +2

      Just yesterday you didn't have a single error in your comment. Look how far you've regressed since then :(

  • @mrhamburger6936
    @mrhamburger6936 Před 8 dny +10

    Vote Joe Biden back in office you'll see more of this

    • @romktch17
      @romktch17 Před 8 dny +9

      Yes! How dare Joe Biden force a restaurant owner in Brookfield to not pay his employees! 😂

    • @GonzoLibre-pl3lc
      @GonzoLibre-pl3lc Před 8 dny +9

      Or vote the same party back in who thinks that employers shouldn’t pay their employees fair wages; passing the buck onto the customer who’s also not paid well because Conservatives are anti-union and believe that “You should just feel grateful to have a job”.

    • @mrhamburger6936
      @mrhamburger6936 Před 8 dny

      @@GonzoLibre-pl3lc okay Joe Biden

    • @DrGaryGreen
      @DrGaryGreen Před 8 dny +1

      Guess you missed out on that free public education, eh? Charter school?
      Takes a whole lotta dumb to make a statement like that.

    • @Echelon730
      @Echelon730 Před 8 dny +2

      What? Making people pay the taxes they owe?? HELL YEAH!!!

  • @schawnettarobinson8584

    People don’t care.

  • @xx6474
    @xx6474 Před 8 dny +1

    I will be posting the person's name and address who sent the "anonymous tip" here

    • @romktch17
      @romktch17 Před 8 dny +5

      No one cares, Captain Cholesterol