A former Starbucks’ employee sued concerning how their tips were distributed. Starbucks’ procedure was to tally weekly the amounts in the tip jars and then divide the money to every service employee who had worked during the week based on the number of hours they worked. A Minnesota District Court ruled that this sort of tip sharing violates Minnesota law, which in the opinion of the Court requires tips to be shared by employees who worked the same shift, and should be distributed at each shift change. Delsing v. Starbucks (D.C. Minn. 2009)
