Posted on Dec 7, 2017
Trump wants to take tips away from wait staff and give them to restaurant owners
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Well, if this happens, I won’t be tipping anymore.
Trump wants to take tips away from wait staff and give them to restaurant owners
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Posted 7 y ago
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Disappointing but not surprising of Trump and the GOP. If business owners think the backroom staff needs the extra money then pay them more. Tips for servers is based on the front room service not the cooks or dishwashers. And the idea of owners wanting to take a portion of the tips to apply to other business improvements is total BS. Imagine adding a gratuity fee to the bill that goes to the backroom staff and is separate from your server's tips. Customers may not like it but at least it gives them confidence that employers are trying to take care of their employees. Better than this crap from the current administration and the National Restaurant Association.
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MAJ James Woods
PO1 Mary Vermont - Gee I didn't realize the Trump administration ever proposed a framework for increased minimum wage for those in that specific industry. I must've missed that talking point for the last two years.
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PO1 Mary Vermont
No he didn’t so you didn’t miss that. What iwas suggesting is that if he gives the so called tips back to restrants they could afford to pay higher wages, so you did miss that. US is only country thst has tipping
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MAJ James Woods
PO1 Mary Vermont - That's illogical and the reason other countries don't tip is because businesses actually pay 'living' wages to their workers based on their profit margins. Something American multibillion dollar corporations can't seem to figure out. Family owned, non-franchised, small businesses are the exception but I assume most of them knowing they can't pay reasonable wages to their employees wouldn't take their tips from them as business income either.
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PO1 Mary Vermont
I think this is a total misunderstanding of what President Trump has in mind. He is a very smart business man and sucessful and he didn’t get that way by mustreating his emplyees
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What it really says, rather than a piece of fiction from Tom Perez former Counselor,
Christine Owens. And what is expected from those receiving tips from the legal requirements of the IRS.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/tip-recordkeeping-and-reporting
https://www.dol.gov/WHD/flsa/tipcredit-fs.htm
Christine Owens. And what is expected from those receiving tips from the legal requirements of the IRS.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/tip-recordkeeping-and-reporting
https://www.dol.gov/WHD/flsa/tipcredit-fs.htm
Tip Recordkeeping and Reporting | Internal Revenue Service
Provides information and resources dealing with Reporting Tip Income for All Industries that deal with Tipping of Employees.
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I hate to break up the hysteria and Trump bashing. As always there is more to the story and it makes logical sense: https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.eater.com/platform/amp/2017/12/5/16708374/tipping-laws-trump-department-of-labor-changes
Trump Is About to Make Tip-Pooling Legal Again. Here’s What That Means for Restaurant Workers
Gratuities could be split between servers and cooks, or kept for the house
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This article doesn't really refute anything in the original article... it just addresses the issue from the perspective of owners and managers. If all tips go to management and management is allowed to distribute those tips as they see fit, many will wind up keeping some or all of that money for themselves. Even those who do not will be using those funds to augment salaries that they otherwise might be forced to raise themselves. Either way, control of tip money is moved away from those for whom it was intended and given to those for whom it was not intended.
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