What You Need to Know
- Restaurants are facing more lawsuits alleging they shortchanged some workers by improperly distributing tips.
- The disputes revolve around the so-called tip credit and when it can be applied.
- Pandemic mayhem caused many restaurant jobs to change, adding to the complexity of compliance.
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Some strategies pandemic-battered restaurants are using to stretch their vacancy-plagued staffs—and incentivize more workers to stay—have spurred an uptick in class and collective litigation by workers, employment lawyers say.
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