The progressive case for Trump’s tip-pooling rule

By Joshua Chaisson

Published December 22, 2017 5:01am ET

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This month, President Trump’s Labor Department proposed a new rule that would permit some restaurants to share (or “pool”) tips between servers like myself and “heart of the house” employees, such as cooks and dishwashers. It would rescind a 2011 rule that prohibited restaurants from including these latter employees in a tip pool.

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