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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2019 - 2020
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 14, 2018 11:43 AM |
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| From: | Senator Christine M. Tartaglione |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Eliminating Credit Card Deductions from Tips |
| In the near future, I intend to re-introduce legislation that would amend Pennsylvania’s Minimum Wage Act to prohibit employers from deducting business costs from gratuities paid to employees. Specifically, my legislation would require any employer who permits customers to pay gratuities by credit card to pay their employees the full amount of the gratuity indicated on the credit card slip. No deductions may be made for any fees or costs the credit card company may charge to the employer. This bill was introduced as SB 162 in the 2017-18 session. In Pennsylvania, minimum wage employees who make at least $30 per month in tips are considered tipped workers. By law, they must be paid at least $2.83 per hour, and the rest of their wages are earned from customer tips. Unfortunately, when a customer uses a credit card to pay gratuity at a bar or restaurant, employers often require their tipped employees to subtract from their gratuities the processing fees charged by credit card companies. This business practice is both costly and unfair to tipped workers, as it diminishes their take-home pay and penalizes them for a customer’s decision to use an employer-sanctioned method of payment. It is in the best interest of our Commonwealth to end any practices that are unfair to tipped employees, as they should be paid the full amount of gratuity intended by their customers. I hope you will support this important legislation to protect the rights of tipped workers throughout the commonwealth. |
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Introduced as SB79