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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administrations proposed labor rule would rob tipped workers of $5.8 billion per year
In December, the Department of Labor proposed a rule that would rescind portions of tip regulations, allowing employers who pay the minimum wage to take workers tips. According to Economic Policy Institute research, tipped workers would lose $5.8 billion a year in tips as a result of this rule. Women in tipped jobs would lose $4.6 billion annually.
Current regulations prohibit employers from taking tips. The department justifies the proposed rule by saying it is partly about fairness to back of the house workers, such as dishwashers and cooks, who dont typically receive tips. The rule would theoretically allow employers to give some of the tips to back-of-the house workers. On the surface, the rule seems to address the great racial divide in high-end restaurant restaurants, in which white non-Latinx people tend to work in higher paying-positions as waiters and bartenders, and Latinx people tend to work in lower-paying jobs, such as line cooks and other back-of-house positions. The median hourly wage for restaurant waiters and waitresses is $9.61 and dishwashers median wage is $10, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But employers are free to decide not to distribute those tips to those low-income workers, Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told The Washington Post.
https://thinkprogress.org/tipped-workers-stand-to-lose-5-8-billion-in-tips-thanks-to-proposed-labor-rule-78ea3b9369a9/
This is why you need unions...........................there needs to be a concerted lawsuit against how this going to be implemented, everyone should get a decent hourly rate, a 15 dollar per living wage to start, and this sexist sexual predator assault on the woman who make up the majority in this endeavor
This asshole stiffed mom and pops, and banks and other which is well known, but now, this is just shameless ...................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Greybnk48
(10,148 posts)places like NYC if they keep this up. As it is, they can't afford to live there. Many commute and the bridge tolls eat into their pay, and now this?
My nephew tended bar in Manhattan for years, living in what would pass for a closet in my neck of the woods, but stayed for the tips. Take those away, and he's better off at Costco or somewhere like that. (He actually went back to grad school and is a social worker now).