Analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, suggests that women and hispanic workers have the most to lose from the DOL’s tip-pooling rule. The EPI estimates tipped workers would lose $5.8 billion in tips to employers if the rule passes, and nearly 80% of that loss would fall on female staff. (Replica race/ethnicity chart too)
Quartz
January 19, 2018
If you work in the service industry and think you’re going to get all your tip money, think again — especially if you’re a woman. A new report by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, found that a potential new Trump administration rule that’s being called “tip stealing” could hurt women more than anyone else. “Because women are both more likely to be tipped workers and to earn lower wages, this rule would disproportionately harm them,” the Economic Policy Institute states. (EPI cited throughout)
Bustle
January 19, 2018
Analysts at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) say this proposed rule shifts ownership of tips from employees to employers, without any restrictions on what they can do with the money. “The proposed rule does not require employers to distribute the tips,” EPI reports, “so employers would be no more likely to share tips with back-of-the-house workers than they would to make any other choice about what to do with a business windfall.”
The Post and Courier
January 19, 2018
The Trump administration’s proposed change to tipping would cost workers $5.8 billion a year and overwhelmingly affect women, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute. The public comment period ends in three weeks. As women’s marches take place across the United States this Saturday, time is running out to put in your two cents about a rule proposed by the Trump administration that a new report says could cost female workers $4.6 billion dollars in tips a year. The Department of Labor wants to rescind Obama-era rules that barred employers from seizing their workers’ tips. Researchers at the Economic Policy Institute found that the change could cost tipped workers overall $5.8 billion dollars a year. Study co-author Heidi Shierholz said women would take 80 percent of the hit.’ (whole story)
CBS News Las Vegas
January 19, 2018
Graduate students across the country are fighting for the right to collective bargaining. Hear students from Columbia University tell how they succeeded. Also, listen as Baltimore Teachers Union President Marietta English shares the teachers’ perspective on this month’s big chill at BCPS. (Interview with Marni)
WOLB
January 19, 2018
In December, the Department of Labor proposed a rule that would rescind portions of tip regulations, allowing employers who pay the minimum wage to take workers’ tips. According to Economic Policy Institute research, tipped workers would lose $5.8 billion a year in tips as a result of this rule. Women in tipped jobs would lose $4.6 billion annually. (whole story)
Think Progress
January 18, 2018
As women’s marches take place across the country this Saturday, time is running out to put in your two cents about a rule proposed by the Trump administration that a new report says could cost female workers $4.6 billion in tips a year. The Department of Labor wants to rescind Obama-era rules that barred employers from seizing their workers’ tips. Researchers at the Economic Policy Institute found that the change could cost tipped workers overall $5.8 billion a year. Study co-author Heidi Shierholz says women would take 80 percent of the hit. (whole story)
Public News Service
January 18, 2018
President Donald Trump’s war on workers has spawned a number of disastrous policy moves, from cuts to federal employees’ pay increases to directives making it harder for workers to unionize. But one of the “nastiest” policy shifts Trump is pursuing is a rule that would allow companies to steal their employees’ tips—which, according to a new report, would cost workers $5.8 billion a year. Published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on Wednesday, the analysis also details the disproportionate impact the proposed rule would have on women, whose tips would account for nearly 80 percent—$4.6 billion—of the total stolen by employers. (whole story)
Common Dreams
January 18, 2018
A new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonprofit think tank, estimates American workers could lose up to $5.8 billion in tips if the proposal is finalized; moreover, they estimate that women would be impacted the most. According to the report, 80 percent of tipped jobs — ranging from restaurant workers to bartenders to hair stylists — employ women, and if implemented, this cohort of women could lose $4.6 billion in tips. “Because women are both more likely to be tipped workers and to earn lower wages, this rule would disproportionately harm them,” the report states. (whole story)
Salon
January 18, 2018
Two of the Trump administration’s favorite pastimes are screwing over women and workers, from dialing back Title IX’s application in campus sexual assault cases and attempting to defund Planned Parenthood, to championing right-to-work legislation that would severely hamper labor unions and ditching an Obama-era regulation that ensures employees are compensated fairly for their overtime hours. A new rule under consideration by the Department of Labor would harm both women and workers. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a new proposal that management be allowed to keep employees’ tips would cost women workers $4.6 billion annually, or approximately 80 percent of the $5.8 billion it would cost the industry overall. That $5.8 billion represents 16.1 percent of the estimated $36.4 billion tipped workers earn each year. (whole story)
AlterNet
January 18, 2018