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Back in December, we reported on the Trump administration's proposed changes to tip-pooling regulations that would allow employers to pocket servers' tips as long as the employees continue to make minimum wage. That's right: Employers could take servers' tips and just dole out the minimum wage. But wait, it gets worse!
Turns out, the Department Of Labor knew how crappy this would make life for restaurant employees. This Bloomberg Law article, citing sources within the agency, reveals that the Department Of Labor knowingly buried its own data that showed restaurant workers would lose billions of dollars in gratuities under the new proposal.
Source: https://thetakeout.com/proposed-tip-pooling-law-is-so-bad-for-workers-the-gove-1822664111
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:48PM
I hope we can agree that not all restaurateurs are equally contemptible. I've eaten in many places that were pleasing in every sense of the word. I've met wait staff who loved their bosses. Granted, there are at least ten hell holes (without even considering fast food dumps) and incompetent managers for every place like I've described - but there are some really great restaurants, and restaurant managers. You've got to find them, though.