"Legislation increasing the required minimum employer-paid wage for tipped employees would force employers to redirect payroll dollars away from employees who do not earn tips, and give them to tipped employees who are usually earning far in excess of the minimum wage".
Translation: Cooks and other restaurant employees who do not interact with the customers cannot legally earn tips or share in the tips earned by the waiters.
Wenner, who learned perspective and dimension in Italy, is one of an increasingly popular breed of street performers who earn tips for their artistic labors.
(In New York State, the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Employees who earn tips can earn a lower hourly wage, but the employer must ensure the worker makes $7.25 when tips are included).
But at Mr. Clinton's insistence, Republican leaders dropped several proposals, including one to freeze the wages of waiters and waitresses who earn tips, at $2.13 an hour.
But the Democrats who control the Assembly, including Speaker Sheldon Silver, want to set a new minimum for restaurant and bar workers who earn tips at $3.30, not $3.52.
Business and Labor LEGISLATION ENACTED Sets the minimum wage for hotel and restaurant workers who earn tips at $3.30 an hour.
She didn't earn tips at the movie theatre, but the job was boring otherwise, and she did think that Robert was cute.
He earned $5.46 an hour, he said, and spent much of his day doing the same work as nontipped employees — putting together pizza boxes and cleaning the store — leaving fewer chances to earn tips.
Without a change in the law, the minimum wage for food service workers who also routinely earn tips would have risen on Friday to about $3.50 an hour from $2.90.
