Breakfast chain wants more tip sharing amongst employees
A national coffee-and-breakfast restaurant company has helped push discussion of revising employee tip-sharing rules into Massachusetts.
By law, managers in Massachusetts restaurants cannot ask for or demand tip money from employees, nor may they join in a tip pool, according to local news source The Lowell Sun. The restaurant chain wants its lower-level managers, who may receive the designation for performing a task as simple as tallying up money in a register or unlocking a front door at the beginning of the day, to be able to supplement their income with pooled tips.
Because of ambiguous language in current legislation, many of the company's locations in the state have disposed of tip jars entirely due to fears of legal action. Previous lawsuits over tipping have affected the chain in the past. A suit filed in Suffolk County Superior Court attacked the company's current no-tipping policy, The Boston Globe reported.
State Sen. Brian Joyce told The Lowell Sun that because of the murky language currently on the books, employees from lead bartenders to hostesses could theoretically be barred from receiving tips.
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