Tip Pools and Tip-Outs: What’s Legal, What’s Not.
Don’t let your employer fund payroll with your tips. Let’s discuss who can be paid from a tip pool—and why employers must prove it’s legal. 1) The burden is on the employer—period. If your tips [...]
Colorado Tip Pooling Law Requires Customer Disclosure
Do Customers Deserve Notice that a Restaurant is Pooling Tips? The answer varies by state, but for restaurants in Colorado, the answer is yes—the Colorado tip pooling law requires restaurants to [...]
New Mexico Tip Sharing Laws for Restaurant Workers
Tips, Tip Credits, and New Mexico Tip Sharing Laws If you are a restaurant worker in New Mexico who receives tips, this article will tell you everything you need to know about tips, tip credits, [...]
Servers: Four Things You Should know about Tip Share
Servers: Four Things You Should know about Tip Share Federal laws apply in all 50 states. Your state’s laws may supplement the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, but your state’s law may not [...]
Four Rights You Have as a Restaurant Server
Laws for Restaurant Servers Whether you are a restaurant server working in the front of the house or working back of the house, working in a restaurant is not easy. To make matters worse, in our [...]
Wage Theft in Restaurants
In April 2019, a group of restaurant workers in Albuquerque, New Mexico staged protests concerning alleged wage theft in restaurants throughout the city. Some of the techniques the workers [...]
Tip Share Laws Violated
A popular New York City restaurant, the Waverly Inn, currently faces a lawsuit due to claims that the restaurant company failed to pay its waiters and waitresses minimum wage in accordance with [...]
