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LANSING -Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a coalition of nine attorneys general in praising the Department of Labor's new Tip Regulation, dismissing their lawsuit and ending the fight to overturn the Trump Administration's harmful rule.
"As it stood, this rule would have negatively impacted hundreds of thousands of service workers in Michigan," Nessel said. "I commend the Department of Labor for correcting this harmful rule and as a result, protecting workers nationwide."
The coalition led a legal challenge to a U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) rule that unlawfully sought to remove the limit on non-tipped work a tipped worker may complete and still receive only the tipped minimum wage, $2.13 per hour federally and $3.67 per hour in Michigan.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the federal law establishing a baseline of critical workplace protections, such as minimum wage and overtime, for workers across the country. It permits employers to take a credit against their minimum wage obligations for the tips workers receive. The Trump era rule would have eliminated a twenty percent cap on the amount of non-tipped work a tipped worker could do and still receive only the tipped minimum wage, resulting in lower pay for tipped workers nationwide.
As the coalition advocated, the new rule restores the twenty percent cap and imposes an additional limit of thirty...
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