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Proposed Tip-Pooling Law is So Bad for Workers the Government Hid Data on It

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 06 2018, @02:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-tipping-allowed dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow9228

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

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:33PM (3 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:33PM (#633965) Journal

    Stealing a server's tips is a surefire way to destroy his or her incentive to give good service. It also deprives the customer of a useful feedback mechanism for a particular server.

    In Japan you don't tip at all, but their culture has a notion of service and politeness built in so the incentive mechanism necessary in American restaurants is not needed there.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:55PM (#634026)

    As others have pointed out, the tipping incentive doesn't make much difference. Some people leave crappy tips, some leave none, and no amount of good service is likely to sway them. There was an article about some restaurant that went with a living wage and no tips, turns out it was very successful.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @12:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @12:21AM (#634220)

    > In Japan you don't tip at all, but their culture has a notion of service and politeness built in so the incentive mechanism necessary in American restaurants is not needed there.

    In Japan the restaurants pay their workers, and if the workers suck, they get fired. That's the capitalist way, unlike those commies in the US :)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @10:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @10:53AM (#634361)

    Tipping as a feedback mechanism? Well it can reinforce whatever you want it to. From "laugh at my grating jokes" to "let me when I fondle you".

    If you have some feedback to give, God gave you a mouth. Open and speak.

    Japan is the other extreme.