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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 [...]

Pennsylvania Tip Credit Law Finalized to Protect Tipped Workers The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (“DLI”) has finalized and issued for approval a new Pennsylvania Tip [...]

Wage Theft is Big Business for Employers As reported here by Forbes, the Economic Policy Institute reported the result of a study showing that, from 2017 to 2020, workers were able to recover $3 [...]

The Tip Credit  When an employer relies on a worker’s tips to meet its obligations to pay the minimum wage, this is called taking a “tip credit.” The maximum credit an employer can take [...]

Why “Burden of Proof” Matters for Workers Determining which party has the burden of proof in a legal proceed can be a complicated issue. This is one reason that it is important to [...]

In a “win” for workers, the federal Department of Labor has proposed new regulations regarding tipped employees, including reinstatement of the 80/20 rule for side work. The new [...]

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 [...]

Amazon Wage Theft Wage theft is unlawful and happens more often than employees would imagine. Worse still, employers engage in wage theft intentionally and, often, purposely conceal their wage [...]

Tips for Employers Servers There is a common misconception among servers in the restaurant industry that if a server’s hourly wage plus tips exceeds the minimum wage then your employer can do [...]