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California: Employers with 100 or more U.S. employees and at least one employee in California must a submit an annual report of the number of employees within each establishment by race, ethnicity, and sex by job category and pay band and hours worked during the prior year.

Pay reporting now requires employers to report remote workers who physically work at an establishment, remote workers who reside in California, and remote workers outside of California.

While “cash tips” are the most common means toward deduction application, the law defines that term to include: ;Tips “paid in cash or charged” plus “tips received under any tip-sharing arrangement”; and,; ;Tangible “non-cash” tips (e.g., concert tickets, a gift basket), listed in dollar-value equivalent.; Section 3 — most prominently, Section 3(m) — of the FLSA outlines the use of tips by employers as a form of compensation.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal , the numbers show that in 2022 about two-thirds of the top executives at S&P 500 companies ended the year with smaller pay packages than they were initially awarded, at least on paper.

With Vermont’s law passage, 13 U.S. states (plus the District of Columbia ) have now signed a pay transparency bill into law.

Jones said the D.C. law also offers broader measures than the laws of states such as California, Maryland, Rhode Island and Washington state, which require disclosure of salary range only upon request.

Managers then redistributed these tips to nontipped employees, including kitchen staff.; ;Failed to pay tipped employees the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.; ;Incorrectly paid tipped employees overtime based on the tip credit rate instead of the applicable minimum wage rate.; ;Failed to keep accurate records of employees’ hourly rates of pay and overtime wages due.; “If an employer claims the tip credit, tips may only be shared by employees who customarily receive tips as part of their wage compensation,” stated Mary O’Rourke, a Wage and Hour Division district director in Michigan.

An Office of the Attorney General (OAG) investigation found that under this model, DoorDash used customer tips to offset the base pay it had already guaranteed to workers, instead of giving workers the full tips they rightfully earned.

Organizations could be tempted to implement a Band-Aid solution by disclosing the minimum information required for each role to comply with laws.

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