NC Restaurants Hit With DOL Suit Over Pooled Tips

By Abigail Harrison ( December 5, 2025, 7:17 PM EST) -- Two North Carolina restaurants have, for four years, kept and pooled tips from front-of-house employees, while unlawfully distributing them to tip-ineligible, back-of-house employees in order to offset labor costs, the U.S. Department of Labor told a North Carolina federal court....

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