Few noticed, but Congress just banned restaurants from skimming tips

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Restaurant servers dodged a bullet this week with a provision tucked into the $1.3 trillion federal spending bill.

Late last year, the Department of Labor proposed a rule that would have authorized restaurants to share tips between servers and cooks. That would allow employers to keep some tip money for themselves, as long as each worker made at least the full federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Workers' rights groups argued the rule change would lower the pay of those who work at restaurants, hotels and bars. Opponents of the rule held splashy public protests. The Labor Department received more than 218,000 mostly negative comments on the proposal.

It appeared to have worked. The spending bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law on Friday, includes a section that makes it clear that employers may not pocket any portion of tips that diners leave for workers.

"We beat them," said Saru Jayaraman, president of the nonprofit Resftaurant Opportunities Center. "I think they realized how outrageous what they were proposing sounded to the public, and basically they backed down."

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/24/news/economy/restaurants-tips-spending-bill/index.html

[underpants]

1. Loser: DeVos

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210402111

[spanone]

5. thanks!

[still_one]

2. Good. While many restaurants did the right thing, there were too many of them that skimmed

gratuities.

It would also be fair if those who bused and washed dishes in a small percentage of those gratuities

[yallerdawg]

3. Some people are saying...

"This is the best bill Barack Obama never got to sign!"

[Raine]

4. THIS is VERY good news!

THANKS for the info!

[MichMan]

6. Hopefully the servers arent as greedy as when I bussed

Worked in the late 70s as a busboy while in college. Servers would constantly brag about making 5-10 times in a night in tips more than what I brought home. Had one give me $1 once.....