A Comprehensive Look at the Tip Wage

Compensation and Benefits Review

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 214-219

  Bouvier Robinson, Terrence ^a  

^a P C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fair Labor Standards Act; tip pooling; tip wages; wage and hour law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904660785     PISSN: 08863687     EISSN: 15523837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886368711407995     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Outdated DOL regulations refer to $20 per month requirement. However, new proposed regulations would bring the outdated DOL regulations into agreement with current law on this issue and a number of others.
2. See 29 U.S.C. § 203(m) and (t).
3. Outdated DOL regulations still reflect the 50% limit on the tip credit. However, new proposed regulations would bring the outdated DOL regulations into agreement with current law on this issue and a number of others.
4. See 29 U.S.C. § 203(m) and (t).
5. Recently, there have been attempts to raise the federal direct wage for tipped employers. A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives that would increase the direct wage for the first time since 1991.
6. See 29 U.S.C. § 206(a)(1).
7. See 29 C.F.R. § 531.52.
8. However, where such sums are distributed to employees, they may be used to satisfy an employer’s minimum wage requirements under the act and will be considered in determining the regular rate for calculation of overtime. See 29 C.F.R. § 531.55(b).
9. See 29 C.F.R. § 531.53.
10. See 29 U.S.C. § 203(t).
11. See 29 C.F.R. § 531.58.
12. See 29 C.F.R. § 531.58.
13. See 29 C.F.R. § 531.57.
14. See 29 C.F.R. § 531.57.
15. See 29 C.F.R. § 531.57.
16. C.F.R. § 531.52.
17. C.F.R. § 531.56(e).
18. C.F.R. § 531.60.
19. C.F.R. § 516.28.
20. See Kilgore v. Outback Steakhouse, 160 F.3d 294 (6th Cir. 1998).
21. C.F.R. § 531.54.
22. Davis v. B & S, Inc., 38 F. Supp. 2d 707 (N.D. Ind. 1998).
23. See DOL Wage and Hour Field Operations Handbook, § 30d04(b).
24. See Myers v. Copper Cellar Corp., 192 F.3d 546 (6th Cir. 1999); Lixin Zhao v. Benihana, Inc., 6 Wage and Hour Cas. 2d (BNA) 1881 (S.D. N.Y. 2001); Kilgore v. Outback Steakhouse of Fla., Inc., 160 F.3d 294 (6th Cir. 1998); and Dole v. Continental Cuisine, Inc., 751 F. Supp. 799 (E.D. Ark. 1990).
25. Roussell v. Brinker Int’l, Inc., 2008 WL 2714079, 156 Lab. Cas. P 35,460 (S.D. Tex. July 9, 2008).
26. Roussell v. Brinker Int’l, Inc., 2008 WL 2714079, at *10 (S.D. Tex. July 9, 2008).
27. See DOL Wage and Hour Field Operations Handbook, § 30d04(b); DOL Wage and Hour Field Operations Handbook, § 30d04(d); DOL Wage and Hour Administrator Opinion WH-468 (September 5, 1978); and DOL Wage and Hour Administrator Opinion WH-380 (March 26, 1976). Note also that the DOL’s proposed new regulations remove the language requiring no contribution percentage greater than is "customary and reasonable."
28. See Kilgore v. Outback Steakhouse of Florida, Inc., 160 F.3d 294, 302 (6th Cir. 1998).
29. U.S.C. § 203(m); 29 C.F.R. § 531.54.
30. See DOL Wage and Hour Field Operations Handbook, § 30d04(c).
31. See DOL Wage and Hour Field Operations Handbook, § 30d04(c).
32. See DOL Wage and Hour Field Operations Handbook, § 30d05a.
33. See DOL Wage and Hour Field Operations Handbook, § 30d05a.
34. See Gillis v. Twenty Three East Adams Street Corp., 2006 WL 573905, 11 WH Cases2d 766 (N.D. Ill. March 6, 2006).
35. See Chung v. New Silver Palace Restaurant, 246 F.Supp. 2d 220, 230 (S.D. N.Y. 2002) and Ayres v. 127 Restaurant Corp., 12 F. Supp. 2d 305 (S.D. N.Y. 1998).
36. See Dole v. Continental Cuisine, 751 F. Supp. 799, 802 (E.D. Ark. September 28, 1990); see also, Bonnette v. California Health and Welfare Agency, 704 F. 2d 1465, 1470 (9th Cir. 1983).
37. See DOL Wage and Hour Field Operations Handbook, § 30d04(c).
38. See DOL Wage and Hour Field Operations Handbook, § 30d01(b).