Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Say No to Trump’s Sneaky Tip Theft
with
Saru Jayaraman, President, Restaurant Opportunities Centers
(ROC) United
The Trump Department of Labor, backed by the National Restaurant
Association, is moving quickly to push a new rule that will make tips the
property of restaurant owners rather than workers. It recently proposed
rolling back a rule that protects workers in tipped industries, including
restaurant servers and bartenders, from having their tips taken away
by their employers. Under the proposal, federal law would allow restaurant
owners who pay their wait staff and bartenders as little as $7.25/hour to
confiscate and pocket all of the tips left by customers, without having to
disclose to patrons what happens to the tips. Tips account for over half
of these workers’ income which even together still adds up to poverty
wages. More than $5.8 billion dollars will be transferred from workers to
bosses under this proposal. Nearly 80 percent of the tips that would be
stolen by employers would come from female tipped workers. Many
women who work for tips already face harassment and discrimination
at work, and this rule adds insult to injury
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