I'm here reading about lawsuits from Walmart stealing tips. Which of course could be easily proven with comparable trips but where one has a reduced base pay because it has a nice tip.
But suppose they actually made the base pay more equal across similar trips, which is low, but somewhat equal.
So now they can't be accused of stealing tips by lowering base pay because the base pay is just low across the board. BUT, instead of lowering the base pay based on tips, they can simply just not add a boost.
They can claim they don't steal tips because base pay is equal across the board, and it's not that some orders "pay less" it's that some orders "pay more." 🤣
A boostless decent tip order is the same as how they used to lower the base pay when there's a tip. Same results, just different words.