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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:33PM (4 children)
Surely, you tip the kitchen staff in addition to the wait staff, correct? No? You're a non-tipping shitstain as far as I'm concerned.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:57PM (3 children)
The kitchen staff get as least minimum wage. The waitstaff don't. While I certainly would have appreciated tips when I was working in the kitchen, it was less critical for me than the folks in the front of the house.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:42PM (2 children)
So if the server is making at least minimum wage, you don't need to tip them? I think you're just making excuses to not tip the people preparing your meal, cheapskate.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 07 2018, @02:01AM (1 child)
As has been observed elsewhere in this discussion, you are a product of a broken system. You were brought up in the broken system, so you can't understand how badly the system is broken. In a properly functioning economy, wait staff would be paid on par with any other skilled labor force, and have no need of tips. That staff would provide an excellent dining experience, without expecting an extra dollar or twenty from you.
Of course, your bill for your dinner would be substantially higher than it is now. The "tip" would be included, in the form of health insurance premiums, unemployment insurance, paid holidays, and all the other perks that skilled workers enjoy. Your typical twenty dollar meal might cost thirty dollars. Or, maybe even forty dollars. But, you could enjoy your meal, knowing that you were paying for your waitress' benefits that she has EARNED by way of providing good service.
Tipping is a sexist and racist thing, designed to keep certain classes of people in their places. Dependent, and subservient.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @04:45AM
but that the part of tipping that I like , that relation of dominance