When we last looked at tip pooling at restaurants and who would be permitted to be included, the laws and regulations were in flux. Since then, the Tip Income Protection Act of 2018 was signed into law. ...more
3/27/2019
/ Employer Liability Issues ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Food Service Workers ,
Minimum Wage ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Tip Credit ,
Tip-Pooling ,
Tipped Employees ,
Tips ,
Wage and Hour
This past April, we reported on a recent Ninth Circuit ruling which upheld a 2011 Department of Labor (“DOL”) rule that prohibits restaurants from instituting tip-pooling arrangements that include both front-of-house staff...more
12/7/2017
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Minimum Wage ,
Obama Administration ,
OMB ,
Private Right of Action ,
Repeal ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Reversal ,
SCOTUS ,
Split of Authority ,
Tip-Pooling ,
Tipped Employees ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour
Restaurant owners with tipped employees should take note of several recent court cases which may affect their ability to cause restaurant employees to participate in “tip pooling,” particularly in instances where...more
In September 2014, this blog asked the question: “Is Just-in-Time Scheduling Good for Business?” Twenty months later, it seems like that question has been answered and our prediction that retailers may be legally required to...more
It’s not exactly news that we have a war for talent in the U.S. Since the recession of 2008, business commentators have followed the U.S. population’s return to work. When unemployment was high and workers had no...more