On June 13 in Clark v. Attorney General, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court allowed an initiative petition relating to restaurant service workers to appear on the November 2024 ballot. Currently, the minimum wage paid to wait staff, other service employees, and bartenders is $6.75 per hour. This wage is known as the “service rate”
Restaurants and other businesses employing tipped workers, many of whom may have been taking a wait-and-see approach in light of Restaurant Law Center v. U.S. Department of Labor, must now review their tip credit and pooling practices given the court’s denial of plaintiffs’ emergency motion seeking to enjoin nationwide enforcement of DOL’s new rule.
On Thursday, March 10 at 12 p.m. EST, join us for a webinar discussion of the future of tips credits after the Dual Jobs Final Rule. On Feb. 22, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas denied the Restaurant Law Center and Texas Restaurant Association’s much-watched emergency motion seeking to enjoin
On Feb. 22, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas denied the Restaurant Law Center and Texas Restaurant Association’s much-watched emergency motion seeking to enjoin nationwide enforcement of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new rule regulating when employers may take a tip credit against their employees’ wages under federal law.