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On a good night, Chris Lopez, a bartender and server in Southern California for eight years, can make $200 to $400 in tips. So when the 31-year-old, who lives in Orange, first heard the news about ...
A South Carolina restaurant must pay nearly $76,000 worth of back wages to 10 employees after illegally forcing them to share their tips with the owner and manager, the U.S. Department of Labor ...
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Leaving some change on the restaurant table is one way of giving a gratuity to the restaurant staff. A gratuity (often called a tip) is a sum of money customarily given by a customer to certain service sector workers such as hospitality for the service they have performed, in addition to the basic price of the service.
The National Restaurant Association and others supported the grassroots organization "Save Our Tips" to keep the existing system in place. The Washington Post, Mayor Muriel Bowser, many restaurant owners, and the vast majority of DC Councilmembers opposed the initiative. An overwhelming majority of tipped workers opposed the ballot measure and ...
The tipped wage is base wage paid to an employee in the United States who receives a substantial portion of their compensation from tips.According to a common labor law provision referred to as a "tip credit", the employee must earn at least the state's minimum wage when tips and wages are combined or the employer is required to increase the wage to fulfill that threshold.
A restaurant in Budo, Texas, Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ, has sparked backlash for its tipping policy for employees, in which it claimed some tips can be withheld.
Two other American studies have contributed to the thesis that tipping is racially discriminatory, finding that ethnic minority servers and taxi drivers received lower tips on average than their white counterparts, by both white and minority customers. In the study of the servers, an attempt by the author to isolate other possible contributing ...