Is it legal that my employer hold my earned credit tips for up to three days?
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Is it legal that my employer hold my earned credit tips for up to three days?
I am currently a waitress. The power went out at our facility for a short period of time and now my employer isn’t allowing our tips from credit be distributed until this following Monday. I regularly receive these same “credit” tips before leaving each day.
Asked on September 6, 2014 under Employment Labor Law, Michigan
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 10 years ago | Contributor
The law does not require the credit tips to be paid the same day, and three days is perfectly legal. That your employer was paying these credit card-based tips the same day was a courtesy, convenience, or accomodation to employees, not anything they had to do.
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