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

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: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Tuesday February 06 2018, @07:11PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @07:11PM (#634039)

    Why does the US allow an exception to your employment laws specifically for gastronomy?

    Read all about it [motherjones.com]

    The summary: The exception to the minimum wage was created to allow the Pullman Company to engage in the racist practice of hiring black porters for no wage at all beyond whatever tips the white customers riding the rails deigned to give them. It took strikes and other labor actions to convince Congress to create a minimum wage for tipped workers at all, that was about half of what untipped workers got but still much better than nothing, and the ratio between tipped and untipped workers was kept roughly steady for several decades. Then in the mid-1990's, Herman Cain's lobbying on behalf of the National Restaurant Association convinced Newt Gingrich to decouple those two numbers, and tipped workers haven't seen a raise since.

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