{"id":1573,"date":"2018-03-25T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2018-03-21T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:49:03","slug":"just-where-are-your-tips-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"Just Where Are Your Tips Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/351835.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/351835.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0debate continues about the fairness of paying wait staff less than minimum wage based on their ability to earn tips. \u00a0Some states have already done away with this special exception to a\u00a0federal wage law and are requiring restaurants to pay full minimum wage. \u00a0Opponents\u00a0suggest that this will\u00a0affect smaller establishments, but studies show that this increase could\u00a0bring a large number of workers above the poverty and deter tip theft as well.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"headline\" class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/12\/opinion\/tipping-restaurants-servers-cuomo-new-york.html\">Wage Theft in Restaurants<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0debate continues about the fairness of paying wait staff less than minimum wage based on their ability to earn tips. \u00a0Some states have already done away with this special exception to a\u00a0federal wage law and are requiring restaurants to pay full minimum wage. \u00a0Opponents\u00a0suggest that this will\u00a0affect smaller establishments, but studies show that this increase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Where Are Your Tips Going?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1131,186,1134,71,1133,1132,243,1130,1129],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-model","tag-discrimination","tag-earnings","tag-federal-wage-laws","tag-minimum-wage","tag-poverty-line","tag-restaurants","tag-tips","tag-wage-theft","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}