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Tip Pooling
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Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
What’s on the Agenda? Tips and OT
By Kevin Young
Authored by Alex Passantino Seyfarth Synopsis: The Wage & Hour Division announced its regulatory plan for the next year and it is less ambitious than some may have anticipated. A…
Employment & Labor
Employers May Not Have To Share Tips With Employees
Introduction Imagine this scenario – you have hired a catering company to cater an event for you. The company performs its obligations, providing both the food and catering staff to…
Minnesota Wage & Hour
MN Supreme Court to Review Burt v Rackner Opinion That Created A New Wrongful Discharge Action
Hope is on the horizon for Minnesota restaurants! On September 20, it was announced that the Minnesota Supreme Court will hear the appeal from the novel decision, Burt v. Rackner, Inc. d/b/a…
World of Employment
Ninth Circuit Refuses to Entertain En Banc Review of its Decision Rejecting Tip-Pooling Arrangements
Earlier this year, we wrote about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Oregon Rest. & Lodging Ass’n v. Perez, which prohibited tip-pools that include “back-of-the house” employees. Last week, the…
Employment Law Worldview
Whose Tip Is It? Restaurant Leaders Urge 9th Circuit for Rehearing En Banc on the Tip Pooling Issue
Restaurant owners rejoice. The battle over extending tip-pooling arrangements to include employees who do not customarily and regularly receive tips may be reopened in the Ninth Circuit. Again. The dispute…
California Employment Law Update
Department Of Labor’s Rule Extending Tip Pool Restrictions Is Valid
By Tony Oncidi
Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Ass'n v. Perez, 2016 WL 706678 (9th Cir. 2016) Pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 203(m) of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), an employer may fulfill…
Workforce Bulletin
Ninth Circuit Upholds DOL Rule Restricting “Tip Pooling” – Employment Law This Week
By Epstein Becker Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
A featured story on Employment Law This Week is the Ninth Circuit's backing of the Department of Labor's rule on "tip pooling." In 2011, the Department of Labor issued a rule that…
Hunton Retail Law Resource
Ninth Circuit Approves DOL Regulation Expanding Tip-Pooling Rules to All Employers
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, employers who use a tip credit to satisfy their minimum wage obligations for tipped employees must follow certain rules related to those tips. One…
Wage and Hour Defense Blog
Ninth Circuit: Tip Pooling for Kitchen Employees Is Prohibited – Even Where No Tip Credit Is Taken
Michael Kun, co-editor of this blog, has a post on the Hospitality Labor and Employment Law Blog that will be of interest to many of our readers: "Ninth Circuit Approves…
Workforce Bulletin
Ninth Circuit Approves DOL Rule Prohibiting “Tip Pooling” for Kitchen Employees Even Where No “Tip Credit” Is Taken
The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) permits employers to use “tip credits” to satisfy minimum wage obligations to tipped employees. Some employers use those “tip credits” to satisfy the minimum…