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Tipped Employees
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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…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
DOL’s Wage and Hour Division Includes 8 Proposed Rules on 2026 Agency Rules List
Quick Hits The DOL’s 2026 agency rule list includes eight WHD proposed rules covering tipped employees, young workers, independent contractor classification, and joint employer status, combining both newly announced and…
Café con Labor
Cheques de nómina en el Estado del Sol – Empleadores de la Florida… prepárense para un nuevo aumento salarial
View English Version Here Atención propietarios de negocios en la Florida: ¡El conteo regresivo ya empezó! A partir del 30 de septiembre de 2025, el salario mínimo en la Florida va…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
New Jersey Bill to Eliminate Minimum Wage Tip Credit Will Impact Hospitality Industry
By By: Michael J. Westwood-Booth
Quick Hits New Jersey Assembly Bill A5433 proposes a five-year phase-out of the tip credit, spanning from 2026 to 2030. The bill would mandate employers pay the full state minimum…
Texas Employment Lawyer
Tips for You, Me, and not Thee
Houston Employment Trial Lawyer Paige Melendez The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides specific guidelines regarding tipped employees and their compensation. Whether an employer pays the full minimum wage or…
Vedder Works
DOL Returns to Prior Dual Jobs Regulation for Tipped Employees
By James P. Looby, Michael D. Considine
In August 2024, we reported on the highly anticipated opinion in Restaurant Law Center v. U.S. Department of Labor, 115 F.4th 396 (5th Cir. 2024), in which the Fifth Circuit…
Texas Employment Lawyer
Helpful Tips Regarding Tipped Employees
Austin/Houston Employment Trial Lawyer Areyana Johnson This blog looks into the criteria and obligations an employer must satisfy with respect to tipped employees. Pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Massachusetts Voters Reject Ballot Measure Requiring Tipped Employees to Be Paid Full Minimum Wage—Is this a New Trend?
Should tipped employees be paid the full minimum wage? Massachusetts residents voted a resounding “No” and rejected a proposed change to the state’s minimum wage law that would have required…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
The 80/20/30 Rule is official a zero
The Department of Labor's "80/20/30 Rule" for tipped employees is dead. That Rule broke down the work of tipped employees into 3 different categories of work: 1. Tip-producing — Work…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Ding Dong, the Federal 80/20 and 30-Minute Tip Rule Is Dead
By By: Victoria L. Vish, Steven F. Pockrass
Quick Hits The Fifth Circuit invalidated the DOL’s 2021 80/20 tip credit rule. The rule defined three categories of work and barred employers from taking a tip credit under specified…