Reply To: How much to tip the barber for a haircut?

@1 Tipping does NOT allow employers to get around minimum wage laws. In those states which have reduced minimum wage rates for tipped employees, employers MUST comply with the laws. Here in CT, if a tipped employee does not receive enough tip income to make up the difference between reduced minimum wage for tipped employees in a given workweek, the employer must pay the shortfall to the employee.
Thus if the barber has to report to work and there is heavy snow each day and no customers, he still will earn the full minimum wage.