That's all good in itself but it's illegal. In Minnesota an employer can't withhold an employee's tips for any reason at all. Period. All tips must be paid to the employee. Once the employee has had taxes taken out and it is given to them via their paycheck the employee can do whatever they want with it. Just remind them there is campaign contribution limits.

Also for your information, if an employee does not make the standard min. wage per hour in tips the employer has to make that amount up. Just to make this simple, if a restaurant wage is 2.50 an hour but the standard min. wage is ten dollars an hour and the employee doesn't make enough in tips to make up the difference between 2.50 and 10.00 the employer has to kick in the difference.