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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 tangomargarine on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:11PM (4 children)
What are you going on about? The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 4, Informative) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:14PM (3 children)
Blarg. Disregard previous; sorry.
So basically restaurant owners get to save money by relying on the charity of strangers to defray their costs. Nice.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Taibhsear on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:14PM
Yup. It's the classic privatize profits and socialize losses.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Wednesday February 07 2018, @12:05AM
Pretty much, yeah. Which is why I said in my other comment [soylentnews.org] that the proper solution is to tip cash to the waitstaff. Credit tips get claimed and put toward that minimum wage automatically, but cash tips don't necessarily make it there. If everybody started doing that it would force the employer to actually pay its employees, regardless of the broken ass system in place, at least until society finally goes cashless.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 07 2018, @12:23AM
Salutes, for having found the truth about wait staff, and other "tipped" workers. Tipping is a sign of sickness in our society. It never should have been allowed to get started.