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Employment Class Action Blog
Domino’s Pizza Drivers Fail to Deliver Common Circumstances to the Eighth Circuit
By Greg Mersol
Authored by: Ericka Spears Despite their work uniforms and company cars, pizza delivery drivers do not have much in common (at least according to the Eighth Circuit). Recently, in Luiken…
Wage & Hour Law Update
Colorado Federal Court Upholds Inclusion of Employee Performing Expediting Function In Tip Pool
Employers who maintain a tip pool are likely aware that, depending on the employer’s state of operation and prevailing law, such a tip pool typically can consist only employees who…
Wage and Hour Defense Blog
Tip Pools: Challenging DOL’s Amended Rule on Employee Participation
By: Kara M. Maciel In April of 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) changed its rule defining the general characteristics of tips in an attempt to overrule the U.S.…
Workforce Bulletin
Are Your Employees’ Tips Subject To Garnishment?
By Kara M. Maciel, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
By Matthew Sorensen Wage garnishment can pose a number of potential problems for hospitality businesses. This is particularly true where the employee whose pay is subject to garnishment receives tips. Garnishment…
Wage & Hour Law Update
District Judge Rejects Server’s Effort to Exclude Food Runners From Tip Pool
Tip pool participation under the FLSA, like classification of employees as exempt or non-exempt, turns on the duties of those participating in the tip pool, not their job titles. An example…
Employment Class Action Blog
Hawaiian Court Finds That Employees Were Not Entitled To Resort Service Charges
By Greg Mersol
Employees’ Tip Ball Fails To Save Game; Series Continues This blog and Baker Hostetler’s HospitalityLawg often come across the same cases, particularly because the hospitality industry is increasingly the target…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Take Me Out to the Ballgame – Yankee Stadium Concession Workers Want A Share of Mandatory Service Charges
On May 9, 2011, a group of Yankee Stadium food service workers filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York alleging that the stadium’s concession providers withheld tips…
Wage and Hour Law Blog
Baluchi’s Indian Food to Pay $1 Million to Workers
By J.C. Solomon
Restaurant workers at a New York City restaurant chain, Baluchi’s Indian Food, and its owner, Rakesh Aggarwal, will finally get paid. Eighteen workers filed suit for to recover minimum wages,…
Wage & Hour Law Update
New York Hospitality Wage Order Goes Final: New Rules Effective 1/1/11
Yesterday, the New York State Department of Labor issued the final version of the new Hospitality Industry Wage Order, as previously discussed here and here. The final Wage Order, substantially revises…
Labor Law Prof Blog
DOL Issues Opinion Letter on Tips
The Department of Labor released today an opinion letter, FLSA 2006-1, on how restaruants must handle tips to food servers that restaurant patronshave added to the credit card payment of…