Workers get to keep tips under new Illinois law

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When a 2018 Department of Labor rule threatened to allow employers, managers or supervisors to collect and keep a portion of employees’ tips, members of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United found their organization advocating harder than ever.

“We wanted to make sure the tips were kept in the hands of workers,” Ali Baker of ROC United in Illinois said.

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