Worker advocates and experts will join a press call today, February 1 at 1 p.m. Eastern,  to respond to breaking news that the U.S. Department of Labor prepared—but then concealed—an economic analysis that found that workers could lose billions of dollars in wages under a controversial DOL proposal to allow employers to keep their workers’ tips.

The press call will include speakers from the National Employment Law Project, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Economic Policy Institute, and ROC United.

The news comes as President Trump’s DOL has proposed a change to roll back an Obama-era rule that protects tipped workers, including restaurant workers, from having their tips taken away by their employers. Should the rule change go through, service workers could lose control of a large portion of their earnings. The comment period on the rule change is set to end on Feb. 5.

When: Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern

Who: Christine Owens, Executive Director of the National Employment Law Project
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and former Chief Economist to Vice President Joseph Biden
Heidi Shierholz, Senior Economist and Director of Policy at Economic Policy Institute
Saru Jayaraman, Co-founder and President at ROC United

Dial-in: (888) 466-9863 or (847) 413-3768
Passcode: 7498-995#

 Please RSVP to news@epi.org.