Late Friday, Governor Lamont vetoed House Bill 5001, which I had highlighted in an earlier post as being passed during the waning hours of the legislative session.
That bill would have rescinded a particular labor regulation and required the Department of Labor to promulgate a new regulation in its place.
In vetoing the measure,
(Post has been updated to note a legislative development.)
Running a restaurant is hard. It’s long hours, short tempers and fickle customers.
But add in those wage & hour laws? What a headache.
And there are lawyers out there who know it. In fact, there are some that rest their business model on
Trying to follow both state and federal wage and hour laws isn’t that hard.
But it isn’t that easy either.
Let’s say you’re a restaurant with a waitstaff. Like most restaurants nowadays, your customers pay by credit card and you, the employer, have to pay the credit card company a percentage on each sale.
You
Late yesterday, various press reports signaled what could be the beginning of the end for 2011 Department of Labor guidance that had greatly expanded legal claims against restaurants.
The 2011 rule barred businesses (mainly restaurants) from including nontipped workers in their tip pools. That practice – if done involuntarily – then entitles the servers or