Minimum Wage, New Rules, Tipped Employees

Employer Cheat Sheet for Workplace Laws Taking Effect July 1

Fisher Phillips on 6/24/2025

Most employers are prepared for new laws at the start of each year – but did you know that a heap of new workplace laws take effect at the halfway point? Here’s your employer cheat sheet to prepare for July 1 effective dates…...more

Labor Department’s “New” Tip Credit Rule is Here to Stay…For Now: A 10-Step Plan for Hospitality Employers

Fisher Phillips on 7/13/2023

A federal court just refused to block the U.S. Department of Labor’s infamous 80/20 rule, which applies to employers that take the tip credit toward their minimum wage obligation under federal wage and hour law – which means...more

Is Your Tip Credit A Ticking Time Bomb? An Employer’s 10-Step Wage and Hour Action Plan for 2022

Fisher Phillips on 1/27/2022

With the government’s final rules on the tips provisions of federal wage and hour law becoming effective just weeks ago, employers will be challenged with ensuring they have a plan to address the rules’ impact on their...more

DOL Limits the Amount of Time Tipped Employees Can Spend on Non-Tipped Work

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP on 11/10/2021

On October 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a new rule, effective December 28, 2021, that limits the amount of time tipped employees can spend on non-tipped activities when the employer receives a tip...more

DOL Restores the 80/20 Rule for Tipped Employees and Creates a New Employee Wage Protection

Quarles & Brady LLP on 11/4/2021

On Friday, October 29, 2021, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule relating to wages of tipped employees. The rule aims to settle flip-flopping by different presidential administrations over the types of work...more

Silverware Rollers Unite! DOL Proposes New Rule on Use of Tip Credit for Non-tipped Work

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 7/1/2021

As we discussed in April, the Biden administration halted the implementation of some of the Trump administration’s changes to the rules on taking a tip credit for non-tipped work. For those that never have had a server job,...more

DOL Seeks Delay of Effective Date for Trump-Era Tip Regulations

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/10/2021

In December 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule (the Rule) which, according to the DOL, is intended to implement changes made by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 to Section 3(m) of the...more

Tipping Points – DOL Issues New Opinions About Paying Tipped Employees

Jaburg Wilk on 2/3/2021

Days before the January 20, 2021, presidential inauguration, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), under the outgoing administration, issued a flurry of new regulations, rules and opinion letters that could significantly impact...more

Department of Labor Issues Final Rule Regarding FLSA Tip Regulations

Foley Hoag LLP on 12/30/2020

On December 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule revising certain regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) related to tipped employees. However, because of the timing of the new rule,...more

Labor Department Loosens Tip Pool Rules For Hospitality Employers

Fisher Phillips on 12/29/2020

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a long-awaited final rule right before Christmas addressing the issue of tipped employees. The final rule, released on December 22 but not effective until February 20, 2021, provides...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: September 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on 9/14/2018

Labor and Employment - Jimmy John's Avoids Joint-Employer Finding in Worker Overtime Litigation - In In re: Jimmy John's Overtime Litigation, 2018 WL 3231273 (N.D. Ill. June 14, 2018), a federal district court ruled that...more

New Tip Pooling Guidelines For Employers

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/11/2018

The recent passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 (“H.R. 1625”), an 878-page omnibus spending bill, significantly changes the rules for tip pooling under the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”). While the...more

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