(YMW) is $4.25 an hour for anyone under age 20 for the first 90 calendar days of employment, unless your state or city offers additional protections to young workers.Eighteen states You can start protecting yourself from wage theft your very first day on the job. Keep a log of the dates you worked, the hours you worked, and when you took your breaks. Ideally, do so in pen in a notebook. Maryland labor attorney Bruce Godfrey says it’s a good idea to take a picture of your log every week and send it to a friend for safekeeping; that way, you can prove that the log was a continuously updated record of your work and not something you made after the fact. Working off the clock is a minimum wage violation that can also cause overtime violations. For example, if you’re working off the clock, those hours aren’t being counted toward overtime, which means that you could be missing out on time-and-a-half pay for the time you worked over the 40-hour threshold during that pay period. If you’re spending hours working for free, you may be making less than minimum wage per hour. By the time Marisa was 19, she had a summer gig as a waitress in a busy restaurant. Her supervisor would sometimes deduct the cost of the staff’s errors from their pooled tips. One day, Marisa accidentally served a very expensive bottle of wine in place of a cheaper bottle by the same producer; she says the bottle wasn’t labeled properly, per the restaurant’s organizational system. The supervisor took the entire $100 loss out of her tips.TheFLSA allows