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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: 3, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday February 06 2018, @03:56PM (4 children)
Then the employer just fires anyone that taddles on them for stealing tips. Your invisible hand of the market only jacks off the owners while fisting the workers. (how's that for a free market analogy?)
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:27PM (2 children)
I loved the analogy. May I quote you?
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:22PM (1 child)
Sure, but I can't possibly be the first person to think of it.
There are a lot of dirty minds on the internet.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:59PM
Please, say it isn't so! You made that up, didn't you? :^)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:42PM
nobody said anything about taddling to some "authority". he said FREE! that means you leave like a free person would do, not whine to some Grand Overseer slug.