$4.6 billion. Billion with a B. That’s how much women who earn tips at work could stand to lose each year if a proposed Department of Labor rule that makes tips the property of employers goes into effect.

Tell the Department of Labor: We Won’t Let You Take Workers’ Tips
Submit your comment to the Trump administration today!

This callous and unfair rule would do away with an Obama administration regulation — and longstanding practice — affirming that tips are the property of the employee who earns them. Instead, it would allow employers to take the tips their employees earn and use them as they see fit, as long as they pay their employees the (incredibly low) federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. This rule has the backing of the powerful National Restaurant Association, which is looking to line the pockets of restaurant owners at the expense of the staff who make their businesses profitable.

The Department of Labor and the lobbyists who support this rule are trying to push it through quickly, before we can make our voices heard. Please send your message now saying you oppose this rule!

Women make up two-thirds of tipped workers, and they already face long hours, low wages, and disproportionately high rates of sexual harassment and assault on the job. And this rule would only make them more vulnerable to harassment as they must try to please both customers AND their employers in order to keep their tips.

Instead of making it legal for employers to steal employee tips, the Department of Labor should be encouraging employers who rely on tipped workers for their profits to adopt policies and practices that protect employees from sexual harassment and assault at work. And the agency should promote raising the minimum wage and abolishing the lower tipped minimum cash wage altogether so that all working people — tipped and non-tipped alike — can count on a fair minimum wage.

Please take action before it’s too late to protect the wages of millions of working people!

Thank you for support!
Julie Vogtman
Director of Job Quality and Senior Counsel
National Women’s Law Center

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