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March 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Jyoti Jasrasaria

Bloomberg Law reports that congressional lawmakers are negotiating a funding bill for the government that would include a provision to calm controversy surrounding a proposed Department of Labor rule about pooling tips. The proposed DOL rule would reverse an Obama-era regulation stating that tips are the property of employees who earn them and cannot be […]

December 10, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

Incarcerated men, women and children make up a third of California’s wildfire-fighting force. Doing dangerous and demanding 24-hour shifts, inmate-firefighters are paid $1 per hour. Their work and time off are the subject of a photo essay from the Marshall Project. The Atlantic identifies a tension between California’s need for firefighters and the state’s motivation […]

December 5, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

The Department of Labor has published a proposed change to the rules around tip pooling. In 2011, the Obama Administration clarified the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations to reflect the Wage and Hour Division’s long-standing policy – based on 1974 FLSA amendments – that employers could never require staff to share tips, regardless of whether the employer paid a tipped or full minimum wage. The Trump Administration now proposes to […]

Where Tips End and Wages Begin

Apr 17, 2017 Christopher M. Young

One year ago, this blog featured a post that outlined various reasons why the restaurant industry’s use of tips in lieu of guaranteed wages had come to provoke, in the author’s words, “a firestorm of criticism”: that reliance on tips as a significant component of server take-home pay 1) destined many servers to earning a […]

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