Mulvaney, Acosta Override Regulatory Office to Hide Tips Rule Data
Source: Bloomberg Law
Posted March 21, 2018, 6:10 AM
Labor Department leadership convinced OMB Director Mick Mulvaney to overrule the White House regulatory affairs chief and release a controversial tip-sharing rule without data showing it could allow businesses to skim $640 million in gratuities.
Mulvaney sided with Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta over the governments rulemaking clearinghousea little-known but critical wing of the White House called the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairsthree current and former executive branch officials told Bloomberg Law. That allowed the department to delete from the proposal internal estimates showing businesses could take hundreds of millions in gratuities from their workers.
The proposed rule, which reverses a 2011 regulation, generally makes it easier for restaurants to implement tip-sharing arrangements among workers who directly earn gratuities and those who dont.
Acosta and his team elevated the dispute to Mulvaney, who as Office of Management and Budget director oversees OIRA, after Trump-appointed OIRA Administrator Neomi Rao and her staff attempted to block the Labor Department from issuing the tip pool regulation. Rao wanted the department to reinsert estimates quantifying how much workers could lose out on tips to their bosses, who would be allowed to participate in the tip pool.
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Mulvaney is an evil sob.
Kick for visibility.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)He's determined to piss and shit on every last American to please Dirty Donny* & the repube cabal of darkside moneybuck monster masters.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
lark
(23,003 posts)turn workers into serfs, take away education and wages so they are like russians and are basically starving and die very young since they can't afford healthcare. Of course they cant tell the truth so drumpf makes up ridiculous things like "MAGA" when the actual aim is to destroy us, the middle class and poor - same as he's implementing with Puerto Rico & VI right now.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)This pisses me off to no end.
Curious how this would work if implemented. Would all the employees become tipped employees then and because of that would their pay be allowed to be reduced to reflect a tipped position?
would waiters and waitresses have to be paid at least real minimum wage instead of the pittance they are allowed to be paid now?
I suspect the former.
Not sure how one would fight this. Stop tipping entirely? or just avoid places that pool tips?