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"employers may now legally pocket tips." US Budget

Mar 25, 2018 3:27PM PDT

From many sites, "employers may now legally pocket tips."
https://www.eater.com/2017/12/5/16708374/tipping-laws-trump-department-of-labor-changes

Here's what I think is going on (meme follows):


More about this?

"But if they decide to follow the DOL’s new rule, and they don’t take the tip credit, and instead pay minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to all their employees, then tips are no longer considered the property of the employee; they become property of the employer. That employer could split those tips between back and front of the house. Then again, the employer could also keep them all."

I guess I'll be asking more questions.

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