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Tip Credit
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Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
DOL’s Latest Field Assistance Bulletin is the Final Nail in the 80/20 Rule’s Coffin
By Ariel D. Cudkowicz, Michael E. Steinberg
Tips from Seyfarth is a blog series for employers, and their in-house lawyers and HR, payroll, and compensation professionals, in the food, beverage, and hospitality sector. We curate wage and hour…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
DOL Cleans Up Its Arsenal of Guidance to Align With Current Dual Jobs Regulation
Quick Hits The U.S. Department of Labor recently updated its tipped-employee guidance to reflect the Fifth Circuit’s 2024 decision in Restaurant Law Center and the reinstatement of the original dual…
The Employer Handbook Blog
Illegal Deductions, No Records, No Tip Credit: A Restaurant’s FLSA Trifecta
A restaurant charged its servers a dollar a shift for silverware and pens. That dollar voided the tip credit for every hour every server ever worked, and the liquidated damages…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Connecticut Appellate Court Delivers a Triple Punch in Tip Credit Cases
The story of Connecticut's tip-credit law is like one of those television procedural shows -- full of drama and seemingly never ending. Today, the Connecticut Appellate Court added three more…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
A dollar saved, a tip credit destroyed
Sometimes a case turns on complex legal questions or convoluted fact patterns. Other times it turns on something far simpler—like a single dollar. In Dugan v. Reservoir Restaurant Inc., a…
HR Defense
A Tip for Employers With Tipped Employees — Stay on Top of the Ever-Changing Guidance on the 80/20 Rule!
By Paige Newman
Employers with tipped employees are constantly trying to keep up with the ever-changing and evolving tip credit rules promulgated by the United States Department of Labor (DOL) — specifically, what…
The Employer's Wage and Hour Advisor
Fifth Circuit Vacates DOL’s Tip Credit Rule
By Haba K. Yono
On August 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) “80/20” rule on how tipped employees must be paid under the Fair Labor Standards Act…
Class Action Defense Blog
Fifth Circuit Vacates The U.S. Department Of Labor’s Tip Credit “Final Rule”
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Jennifer A. Riley, Emilee N. Crowther, and Derrick Fong-Stempel Duane Morris Takeaways: In Restaurant Law Center et al v. U.S. Department of Labor, No. 23-50562,…
Employment Law Lookout
Tips from Seyfarth: In a Major Win for Restaurants, Fifth Circuit Vacates DOL’s 80/20 Rule
By Ariel D. Cudkowicz and Michael E. Steinberg Tips from Seyfarth is a blog series for employers, and their in-house lawyers and HR, payroll, and compensation professionals, in the food, beverage, and hospitality sector.…
Vedder Works
Fifth Circuit Strikes Down U.S. Department of Labor Tip Credit Rule
In a highly anticipated opinion, on August 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit in Restaurant Law Center v. U.S. Department of Labor (Case No. 23-50562) struck down a Final Rule promulgated…