Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry is proposing improvements to the state’s minimum wage and overtime law that would greatly affect restaurant workers (particularly tipped workers) by ensuring that employees rightfully receive the wages and tips that they earn.
All workers in Pennsylvania need to be fairly paid for their labor and these proposed improvements will do this by updating the rules governing tipped workers, increasing workers’ earnings, and making sure that the income that tipped workers rely on (and legally belongs to them) is not unfairly taken by employers and managers.