In case you need more evidence that the Trump administration fucking hates the working class, they are proposing a rule that would allow employers to pocket the tip money earned by servers at restaurants.
1-2-3-4, this is fucking class war! Get organized!!! Join an org!! Stand up fight back!
For anyone who hasn’t worked in a tipped position before:
“Tipping in” or “tip pooling” is a practice used at some bars and restaurants, particularly higher-end restaurants where a server may easy make $20+ from each table. Servers are required to turn some or all of their tips over to the managements, who then (in theory) redistribute them to other, non-tipped employees – mainly kitchen staff, who are probably also making minimum wage while producing these thirty-dollar entrees. Restaurant owners like to say it’s a way of increasing the pay of non-tipped workers in an industry that operates on razor-thin margins.
In reality, a lot of them just straight-up steal some or all of those pooled tips, rather than redistributing them.
In 2011, the Obama Department of Labor enacted a rule that banned tip pooling even if your tipped employees are making the full minimum wage. (A different law makes it illegal to pool tips if you’re only paying the tipped minimum wage, which is half the regular minimum.) Trump’s DoL wants to rescind that rule, and go further to explicitly state that employers can confiscate pooled tips and are under no obligation to redistribute them.
This wouldn’t just affect restaurants, but salons, hotels and any other business where a significant number of workers are tipped. And the payroll system at some of these jobs is designed to account for tips; at my restaurant job it actually estimated how many tips you should’ve gotten based on your receipts for the day and wouldn’t let you clock out if you reported a lower number. Jo Waitress would be required to pay income tax on tips she doesn’t even bring home.
Eat the fucking rich.
Employers would pocket $6.1 billion of workers’ tips under Trump administration’s proposed “tip stealing” rule
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