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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:53PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:53PM (#634024)

    The point is that the system in the US is bad and should be different. The opinions of waiters in the US were developed in the context of working within the broken system. They have developed biases that are based on getting the best they can out of a bad system, rather than implementing a better system.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @09:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @09:08PM (#634093)

    I'd rather cost of having servers be included in the price I'm charged along with all taxes. If a waiter isn't good enough that they deserve the money, then the owner should fire them and get somebody that is.

    Tips just make it hard for waiters to know how much they're going to make while putting them in a vulnerable position when customers behave badly.

    It's hard to understand just how much mental effort it takes deciding how much things are going to cost, unless you've lived somewhere that the price on the menu is what you pay, no more and no less.