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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 tangomargarine on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:20PM (1 child)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:20PM (#633914)

    They're still going to get at least minimum wage either way. It's just a question of where it's coming from.

    The American federal government requires a wage of at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees that receive at least $30 per month in tips.[4] If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any week, the employer is required to increase cash wages to compensate.[5] As of May 2017, the average hourly wage – including tips – for a restaurant employee in the United States that received tip income was $11.82.[6]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:28PM (#634177)

    They're still going to get at least minimum wage either way.

    The first time a restaurant owner needs to "pay extra" to cover the difference between total tips and minimum wage s/he will fire the employee. So in the end, not so much. It would be in the employee's interest to lie about cash tip amounts in order to NOT have the employer pay them to make up the difference. At least that way they would keep their job.