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Restaurant Wage Theft An Oregon restaurant was recently ordered by the court to pay a million dollars to former workers for violating minimum wage laws and wrongfully withholding tips. This court [...]

**Warning:  If you are paid a direct wage of less than $7.25 per hour (i.e. as little as $2.13/hour) the new regulation discussed in this article does NOT apply to you – your employer cannot take [...]

You may have heard that Trump’s Secretary of Labor has proposed a new regulation concerning the tip pool laws. Lots of commentary has been written concerning the new proposed regulation. With [...]

This article was originally posted by Drew N. Herrmann for the Bitchy Waiter. A server’s Duties before, during, and after work Warning, you should not work for free (or almost free)! It may seem [...]

Wage Laws For Restaurant Servers A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work is the mantra of working class America. However, what happens when you don’t receive fair pay or your employer is [...]

Is your employer illegally using tips from the tip pool? Have you ever worked at an establishment where the employer mandated that you “tip out” a portion of your earnings to other employees? [...]

Who is Legally Entitled to a Customer Tip? Have you ever worked a service job and had an employer claim the tips belong to him or her? Whether the employer is right or wrong depends on several [...]

By Drew N. Herrmann* Have you ever worked at an establishment where the employer mandated that you “tip-out” a portion of your earnings to other employees? This arrangement is called a tip pool. [...]