FLSA's Tip Credit Rules: How to Stay in Compliance

Description

Many employees in the service sector are compensated in part by tips rather than wages. In certain circumstances, employers are allowed to claim a “tip credit” toward satisfying state and federal minimum wage laws. This means that the tips are credited against and thus satisfy a portion of the obligation to pay certain minimum wages. However, the laws and rules regarding eligibility for tip credits are complicated and full of traps for the unwary. Further, the rules regarding pooling of tips layer on additional complexity. 

 
 
In this 90-minute interactive audio conference, you will be able to understand if you are in full compliance of the FLSA with regards to tip credit. This audio conference will feature the premier national speakers on this issue, including Dan Abrahams co-author of Thompson’s Employer’s Guide to the Fair Labor Standards Act.
 
Major learning points or questions that will be answered in this audio conference:

• How to avoid FLSA trip wires that result in losing the tip credit for all tipped employees
• How to craft a tip credit notice that will withstand judicial scrutiny.
• How to ensure that the tip pooling arrangements comply with legal requirements.
• How to ensure that tipped employees avoid deployment to non-tipped work

Recording Date

Speakers

Dan Abrahams, Esq., is a partner in the national law firm, Epstein, Becker and Green, and he regularly represents employers before the U.S. Department of Labor and in the courts. He is co-author of the “Fair Labor Standards Handbook for States, Local Governments and Schools,” the “Employer’s Guide to the Fair Labor Standards Act,” the “Public Employer’s Guide to FLSA Employee Classification,” and the “FLSA Employee Exemption Handbook,” all published by Thompson Publishing Group, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the monthly newsletters of all four publications.

Presentation Materials

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