JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — Changes just getting underway for how workers who rely on tips can get paid.
The Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act updated Friday and focuses on employees such as bartenders or waitresses.
Sydney Rupert is a bartender at The Haven. She said, “it takes a lot to work in this industry. I make hardly anything compared to what I make in tips.”
That’s a feeling heard from many people working in the food service industry.
New regulations will raise the minimum amount of tips they can make before the business can reduce their hourly rate to $2.83 an hour.
State officials say the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act has not had its regulations updated for over four decades.
Bryan Smolock, the director of the borough of labor law compliance shared, “The regulations were necessary for a few reasons. Number 1, they haven't been touched for some time. It was, it was about time to address something with these tipped employee regulations.”
The new regulations would clarify the eighty – twenty rule, exclude hourly waged employees from tip pools and an overall increased salary per hour based on tips made each month.
Smolock told Channel 6, “The purpose of these regulations is basically to promote clarity and consistency. It addresses a regulation of the fluctuating work week which was necessary and also updates quite frankly 44-year-old definition of tipped employees.”
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