Employer refuses to show money taken from check

[tuck3a]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Michigan

I work for a large hotel company and I am a tipped employee. All of our tips are processed and given to us in a weekly check. Being a restaurant, servers and bartenders have a percentage taken from their checks to 'tip out' support staff. We all agree to this in our employment contract. The issue is this: our payroll department refuses to show us what amount has been taken from our earned tips (and given to support staff) and what about we were given as a 'tip out'. Each week it is a mystery as to how much of our earned money has been taken from us. On top of this, there are continual errors in payment. Nearly every week an employee is underpaid due to an error in payroll. This is usually because they did not properly split tips and only one employee received the tips. They then take money from the over-tipped employee and give it to the under-tipped employee in the next pay period. This often happens with no communication with the over-tipped employee.

Can they refuse to show us what they are doing with our money?! It seems insane to me.

 

[justalayman]

How are your tips recieved that you can't simply count up the money and calculate the difference between what you recieved and turned in and what they laid back out on the check?

 

[tuck3a]

How are your tips recieved that you can't simply count up the money and calculate the difference between what you recieved and turned in and what they laid back out on the check?

We are supposed to tip out 2% of our sales, which we can calculate. But week after week, my calculations are different than what my check reads. When approached, payroll refused to show how they calculated my check.
As a bartender I am to receive 1% of the restaurant sales as my tip out. This number is unknown to me, I do not have access to the information to calculate what I should be getting tipped out.