Topic
Tip Pooling
148 published works
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Ninth Circuit Approves DOL Regulation Expanding Tip-Pooling Rules To All Employers
By Hunton & Williams LLP, Ryan A. Glasgow, Roland M. Juarez
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers who use a tip credit to satisfy their minimum wage obligations for tipped employees must follow certain rules related to those tips.…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
Ninth Circuit Limits Tip Pooling to Customarily Tipped Employees
By Evan Mix
In a decision with important implications for employers throughout the service industry, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on February 23 that employers cannot implement policies requiring tipped…
World of Employment
Ninth Circuit Declares Tip Pools Invalid Under FLSA Even Where Employers Pay More Than Minimum Wage
In Oregon Rest. & Lodging Ass’n v. Perez, the Ninth Circuit ruled this week that federal law restricts a restaurant employer from maintaining a tip pool that includes “back-of-the-house” employees…
Employment Law Worldview
9th Circuit Tips its Cap to the DOL – Upholds 2011 DOL Rule that Restricts Tip Pooling
A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel upheld a 2011 Department of Labor (DOL) rule barring employers from including employees in tip pools who do not customarily and regularly receive tips. The…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Ninth Circuit “Tips” Away from Prior Decision, Finds Pooling Rules Applicable
Authored by Alex Passantino All around the country, tipping practices have been coming under scrutiny. Restaurants increasingly have abandoned their use of tip credit -- and tipping -- partially due…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
UPDATE: Employee Tip Pooling – Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You!
We have talked with you in the past about the risks of allowing employees to pool or share tips. This is a pretty common practice in the food service industry,…
Franchise Law Update
Are You at Risk for a Lawsuit over Restaurant Tipping and Over-Time Violations?
A multi-unit Houlihan’s franchisee, A.C.E. Restaurant Group Inc., operating 17 restaurants across New York and New Jersey is accused of keeping tips and wages from servers and bartenders and failing…
Law and the Workplace
Fifth Circuit Tips Its Hand as to Analysis of FLSA’s Tip Credit
By Charles J. Stiegler, Nicole Eichberger
Restaurants throughout the Fifth Circuit, and even beyond, should review the recent decision of Montano v. Montrose Restaurant, which discusses the often tricky and always fact-intensive question of whether a restaurant…
Proskauer on Class and Collective Actions
Fifth Circuit Tips Its Hand as to Analysis of FLSA’s Tip Credit
By Charles J. Stiegler, Nicole Eichberger
Restaurants throughout the Fifth Circuit, and even beyond, should review the recent decision of Montano v. Montrose Restaurant, which discusses the often tricky and always fact-intensive question of whether a restaurant…
Wage & Hour Law Update
Fifth Circuit Provides Guidance Regarding Occupations Which “Customarily And Regularly” Receive Tips
Attempting to provide clarity to a subject that is a regular source of litigation, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has issued an extended, detailed analysis addressing the…