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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: 5, Interesting) by Immerman on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:12PM (6 children)
Except for the fact that repeated studies have shown that waiter performance actually has almost no impact on how much they get tipped - that's basically random. About the only thing that *does* correlate with tip amount is the patron's wealth - wealthy patron generally tip substantially lower than most.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:38PM (4 children)
A wealthy person knows that wealth is not accumulated by spending, on the contrary. Otherwise chances are that person won't stay wealthy for long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:33PM
oh yeah, the wealthy are wealthy b/c they are soooo fucking smart. more like stingy sell-outs most of the time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:36PM (1 child)
???
Really? That is the excuse you want to give rich people?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:48PM
Excuse? It's just a hypothesis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by ants_in_pants on Wednesday February 07 2018, @02:50AM
A wealthy person can also afford to spend money more freely.
A wealthy person who spends too much money becomes poor, a poor person who spends too much money becomes dead.
-Love, ants_in_pants
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:17PM
Not quite, repeated studies have shown that tip amount is largely based on sex of the wait staff and if they draw hearts on the receipt.