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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   
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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• Re:Non-tippersRe:Non-tippers (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:32PM (1 child)

  by c0lo (156) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @04:32PM (#633926) Journal

  ^{(yeah, naaah, mate! I do agree with your point, but I deliberately put it this way to emphasize the cognitive dissonance in TMB's argumentation. I know well his battle cry of "Socialism is theft" and yet in this instance he shows quite a decent understanding of waiter's positions, to the point of sacrificing the interest of him as a customer)}

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• Re:Non-tippers(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:23PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:23PM (#633956)

  Because wait staff are so ubiquitous that even he understands the situation. I'm waiting for his mental gymnastics routine where he defines everything in such a way that he doesn't need to budge his world view. Ironically such feats of delusion are what he accuses of anyone who went to college.

  Damn ivory towers with no bearing on the real world!!! /s

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