Trump’s Sneaky Tips Theft - 26:10
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 pofcket
and confiscate 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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