When a potential client sits down in his office, he and his partner ask specific questions about time spent doing side work: what kind, how long, with whom? His firm has always concentrated on employee rights with a large percentage focused on tipped workers, those found painfully often at the “bottom rung of the economic ladder.” As employees learn more about their rights, Werman-Salas has noticed an uptick in claims regarding illegally receiving the tipped wage for performing non-tipped work.