Restaurants Use Tips to Cut Labor Costs

Date:

Nok Lek Travel Lifestyle/ShutterstockYou received great service and want to reward your waiter. But your server may not be receiving the entire tip you left. Some restaurants and food establishments are quietly subsidizing their labor costs instead of letting workers keep their tips.But is this legal? Restaurateurs have been legally taking tips to supplement payroll. It’s allowed by the federal government, but some states have changed that. Food-delivery services also have been accused of this practice.Tipped Employees Under the Fair Labor Standards ActThe Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), according to the Department of Labor, allows employers to take a tip credit toward their minimum wage and overtime obligations for tipped employees.

spot_imgspot_imgspot_img

Share post:

More like this
Related

Retailers See Mixed Sales as Consumers Tighten, Not Retreat

This earnings season highlighted differing trends at some of...

SBA Proposes Changes to Benefit More Than 110,000 Businesses

The Small Business Administration (SBA) is proposing an overhaul...

High Schools Increasingly Expected to Teach Students About Money Management

Millions of K–12 students start the 2026–2027 academic year...

After Trade Talks Collapse, Trump Says Canada Was Seeking Benefits of Being a State

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Dominic LeBlanc, Minister...