Bloomberg Law
April 10, 2018, 10:25 AM UTC

Labor Department Plans New Rulemaking on Tips

Ben Penn

• Wage & Hour Division offers field guidance on new tip pooling law • Businesses may officially start sharing tips with kitchen staff • Omnibus rider paves way for rule in ‘near future’

The Labor Department is drafting a regulation intended to clarify a new law that bans managers from skimming tips, even as the agency begins enforcing the changes to wage-hour law unexpectedly hurried through the government spending process last month.

The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division “expects to proceed with rulemaking in the near future to fully address the impact of” of the tips provision included in the ...

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