<prompt> Human: The restaurant I work at does tip sharing, everyone working gets a share of tips for their shift. In order to get tips you have to have worked there for 90 days. Someone had told me that the rule was six months, but last night I was talking to a coworker and she said she received tips after ninety days, and that the ninety day rule was what applied to everyone else. I spoke with a manager, and he admitted that there had been a mistake; I have not been getting my rightful share of tips for about a month now. My manager has a degree in accounting, and said that he would try to retroactively get me my tips, but that it was far more likely that he would just start giving me tips now a month late. Is there any way I can get my money? If not, I dont think Im gonna continue working there because tips are a huge part of the paycheck that I havent been getting. UPDATE: Ive got tips now.  <response>: My first question would be, are you in the US? Next is, are you in a tipped job waiter, server, etc? Are you being paid regular minimum wage for your state, or tipped minimum wage?There is a little bit of variance about tip rules from state to state, but the FLSA federal has rules that cover the whole country; the basic rule is that tips YOU GET are YOURS and your EMPLOYER can never take any of it.Ive never heard of only getting tips after you work there 90 days. Are you saying that you received tips and were required to give them to your employer? Thats a pretty clear violation of the FLSA. Or, were you required to put tips in a tip jar or some other pool but then not allowed to get your share at the end of the shift? Or that you didnt receive tips yourself, but that everyone working is getting a share of the tips that the waitstaff put into a pool?Tip pooling is legal, but there are rules about it. A very important one is that none of the money in the pool goes to the employercompany. Another is that only employees who are regularly tipped so waiters, servers, etc; not managers, cooks, dishwashers can be made to participate in a pool. Depending on the situation, it may be very difficult to establish how much money you should have been getting. If credit card receipts specify that you were the server, they can at least establish some number, but if you were putting cash in a jar, it is going to be difficult to prove how much you put in vs how much someone else put in. 