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Tips are wages and they belong to the employees, not the employer.\u00a0 <\/span>Tips must be paid to employees in a timely manner.\u00a0 <\/span>For instance, if a customer leaves a credit card tip, then the tip money must be paid to the employee no later than the next regular payday following the day the customer made the credit card payment.\u00a0 <\/span>The employer must pay the employee the full amount of the tip and is not allowed to deduct any credit card processing fees from the employee\u2019s tip.\u00a0 <\/span>A restaurant employer may require its food servers to share a potion of their tips with busboys and bartenders.\u00a0 <\/span>Tip money is not used in the calculation of the \u201cregular rate of pay.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Similarly, tip money cannot be used to go towards an employee\u2019s minimum wage.\u00a0 <\/span>California law requires employees to receive at least the minimum wage in addition to the tip money left by the customers.\u00a0 <\/span>Tip pooling is allowed in the State of California, so long as the distribution of the tip money is fair and reasonable.\u00a0 <\/span>However, an employer\u2019s management and\/or owners may not participate in a tip pool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tips are wages and they belong to the employees, not the employer.\u00a0 Tips must be paid to employees in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio_category":[],"yoast_head":"\n