As New York’s hospitality industry prepares for a reduced tip credit and a fast food minimum wage, one New York restaurateur has announced its intention to eliminate tipping and thus, by extension, use of the tip credit: New York City’s Danny Meyer. This lengthy Eater feature discusses Meyer’s audacious new Hospitality Included program, noting
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Massachusetts Highest Court Holds Businesses Not Required to Permit Tipping Under State Law
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in Massachusetts, Tips and Tipped Employees
In 2013, New York’s highest state court considered which employees are eligible to participate in sharing tips from a communal tip jar, and even if eligible, whether the employer could nonetheless exclude them from participating. The New York court held an employer may exclude employees from sharing in tips even if they would otherwise be…