March 20, 2018
Waiters, bartenders and other service workers told the en banc Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that they're underpaid for tasks that don't garner tips, saying a three-judge panel erred in favoring restaurant owners who'd challenged a 2016 U.S. Department of Labor administrative guidance on minimum wage exemptions for tipped employees.
July 15, 2016
The U.S. Department of Labor filed an amicus brief this week in the Ninth Circuit, saying employers should not count tips toward minimum wage requirements for time a worker spends doing non-tipped tasks if that's what they spend more than 20 percent of their time doing.