Democrats in Congress are seeking to eliminate the tip credit, while federal Republican lawmakers are proposing to make it easier to classify employees as tipped workers whom employers can pay below minimum wage. Here, Law360 looks at three pieces of pending tipped wages legislation.
The clock is ticking for Congress to avoid another quorum lapse at the National Labor Relations Board after the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmed the president's nominees to two seats Wednesday with only a few weeks before lawmakers' August recess.
Advocates for and against eliminating the tip credit believe their arguments are gaining momentum, but the situation is more complex, as efforts to end the lower minimum wage in Chicago and Washington, D.C., have advanced but in a manner that is more scaled back than initially intended.