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Report Link Department of Labor Opinion Examines Uniform Rules, Determines Whether Restaurant Must Pay For Shoes.Barker Olmsted & Barnier - August 06, 2008 The Department of Labor has released a new opinion letter in which it examines a company policy specifying employee shoes. The questions posed are: (1) Are the shoes part of a uniform, such that the employer must pay for them? (2) May the employer arrange for the purchase of the shoes and deduct the cost from the employee’s pay? Report Link The Department of Labor Holds That Restaurants Cannot Deduct for Uniform Cleaning (pdf).Phelps Dunbar LLP - July 28, 2006 The United Stated Department of Labor (“DOL”)
recently issued a Wage and Hour Opinion Letter, FLSA
2006-21, 6/9/06, prohibiting restaurant owners from
deducting uniform laundering costs from wait staff pay.
The opinion letter stated that “no portion of an
employee’s tips may be kicked back to the employer to
cover the cost of uniform laundering,” and “even if the
tips actually received exceed the maximum tip credit the
employer needs to claim toward payment of the minimum
wage, these excess tips are not deemed to be wages for
purposes of the FLSA.” Report Link Restaurants -- Uniforms: Who Pays? (pdf).Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A. - February 11, 2005 Many restaurants require employees to wear uniforms on the job. But is the restaurant legally
required to supply the uniforms at its own cost? That depends. Report Link Deductions From Wages For Uniforms And Other Facilities Under The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).Department of Labor - (No Date) Fact Sheet No. 016. This fact sheet provides general information concerning the application of the FLSA to deductions from employees' wages for uniforms and other facilities.
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