Trump wants to make it perfectly legal for employers to scoop up their employees' tips and keep them for themselves, so long as the employees earn at least the minimum wage. So that great waitressing job you have that only pays a base wage of $6.00/hr, but you get between $50-$100 tips each shift? Well, now it's suddenly a minimum wage job. Doesn't that seem like it will make America great?When I wrote the original post, there was some lingering doubt in my mind that this was accidental; that the Trump Labor Department was simply updating an Obama-era rule in such a way that it accidentally opened the door to such wage theft.
Kevin Drum points us to an article from Bloomberg Law which reveals that not only does the Labor Department know exactly what this change will do; they're also making an effort to cover it up:
Labor Department leadership scrubbed an unfavorable internal analysis from a new tip pooling proposal, shielding the public from estimates that showed employees could lose out on billions of dollars in gratuities, four current and former DOL sources tell Bloomberg Law.I believe this is what Trump-worshippers call 'draining the swamp'. Because they're really, really stupid.
The Labor Department is still accepting feedback from the public until February 5 (I don't know if that means the 4th is the last day to comment, or the 5th is). Try not to use profanity.
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