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https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20180319/BILLS-115SAHR1625-RCP115-66.pdf
“An employer may not keep tips received by its employees for any purposes, including allowing managers, or supervisors to keep any portion of employees’ tips, regardless of whether or not the employer takes a tip credit.” Further, ‘‘Any person who violates section 3(m)(2)(B) shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,100 for each such violation... in addition to being liable to the employee or employees affected for all tips unlawfully kept.”
“This amendment to the FLSA makes it clear that tips belong to workers and no one else,” says Patricia Smith, senior counsel at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) and former Obama administration solicitor of labor. “Employers — including managers and supervisors — can never keep tips. If a tip credit is taken, the current Obama-era rule applies, which means tips are property of front of the house employees only.”
“The big win for the restaurant industry is this: restaurants who pay One Fair Wage — the full minimum wage, not the tipped minimum — will be able to share tips with the back of the house employees, with a provision that clearly precludes anyone in a supervisory or managerial role from sharing in that tip pool.”