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Did Your Employer Provide You Proper Tip Credit Notice? In this second installment of our Empowering Servers Series, we delve deeper into the importance of proper tip credit notice. Understanding [...]

Empowering Servers and Bartenders with Knowledge of the Tip Credit Welcome to the first installment of our four-part series focused on empowering servers and bartenders by exploring and unmasking [...]

Are you a server who has been denied your tips? The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay tipped employees at least the federal minimum wage, which is currently $7.25 per [...]

Overview of a Landmark Tip Credit Violation Case At Herrmann Law, we represent employees in wage and hour cases, with a focus on servers in the restaurant industry who frequently face tip theft [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

What is Illegal Tip Pooling? In any industry where tips are customary, like in the restaurant and service industries, employers are allowed to engage in what is called “tip pooling.” [...]

Servers are Lawfully Entitled to Credit Card Tips. It is extremely common for customers to pay tips via their credit cards as part of the general payment process. This can create an opportunity [...]

Generally, federal and state labor laws mandate that any tip or gratuity received by an employee is money that belongs exclusively to the employee who earned the tip. There are some [...]

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 [...]