[DRAFT] Protecting the Wages of Tipped Workers

[Minskiev]

Hello.

Protecting the Wages of Tipped Workers
Regulation; Labour Rights

The General Assembly,

Aware that many workers internationally receive tips (and just the tip) for their service,

Noticing that many employers use this to cut down on wages,

Wishing to provide a stable income to these tipped workers,

Hereby:

1. Defines:
   
   1. "tips" as remuneration by customers to a worker for the service of that worker to those customers, especially if it's normalized in a society to remunerate workers in certain industries for their services; and
   2. a "tipped worker" as a worker that receives tips.
2. Declares that:
   
   1. No tipped worker shall have their wages reduced as a consequence of them receiving tips or being expected to receive tips; and
   2. No tipped worker shall have their wages fixed at a lower level than the wages of other non-tipped workers, as a consequence of their status as a tipped worker, if the jobs of that tipped worker and the other non-tipped worker have similar or identical qualifications.

Protecting the Wages of Tipped Workers
Regulation; Labour Rights

The General Assembly,

Aware that many workers internationally receive tips for their service,

Noticing that many employers use this to cut down on wages,

Wishing to provide a stable income to these tipped workers, hereby:

1. Defines:
   
   1. “tip credit” as an amount of a worker’s regular pay that the worker’s employer does not have to pay if the worker receives the pay amount through tips;
   2. a ”tipped wage” as the amount of a tipped worker’s pay that does not come from tips;
   3. “district of minimum wage” as a district where the minimum wage throughout is the same;
   4. ”regular pay” as the monetary amount a worker receives per hour of work; and
   5. ”tip pooling” as the sharing of participant tipped workers’ tips.
2. Mandates that:
   
   1. tip credits must:
      
      1. not be more than 20% of a worker’s regular pay;
      2. come with a notice to the tipped worker from their employer of the amount of the worker’s tipped wage and tip credit; and
      3. together with the worker’s tipped wage, at least equal the minimum wage of workers without tip credits in the tipped worker’s district of minimum wage.
   2. tipped workers’ employers cannot keep a tipped worker’s tips; and
   3. a tipped worker’s employer must pay the remainder of the worker’s tip credit if that worker does not receive the tips necessary to satisfy their tip credit;
3. Permits tip pooling if the participants are not forced to share the pooled tips with managers or co-workers without direct service roles, and
4. Recommends that member states outlaw tip credits altogether and pay usually-tipped workers at least the minimum wage of workers without tip credits in the tipped workers’ districts of minimum wage.

[WayNeacTia]

This really seems like something that can be handled by provincial/state tax ordinances. There is very little international concern here.

[Minskiev]

This really seems like something that can be handled by provincial/state tax ordinances. There is very little international concern here.

Not every provincial/state tax ordinance wants to protect the wages of tipped workers. I do.

[Tinhampton]

tip credit[s] must... together with the worker’s tipped wage, at least equal the minimum wage of non-tipped workers in the tipped worker’s location.

And what if your nation has no minimum wage?

[Minskiev]

tip credit[s] must... together with the worker’s tipped wage, at least equal the minimum wage of non-tipped workers in the tipped worker’s location.

And what if your nation has no minimum wage?

Out of the scope of this resolution, but for another...well, that'd be a shitshow of a debate thread. Maybe?

[Imperium Anglorum]

outlaw tax credits altogether

I don't understand how this has to do with your tipping programme?

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The nation has no minimum wage position seems plausible, even in a country which has relatively high levels of income equality. Effective 'minimum' wages could emerge from union action rather than state action.

[Minskiev]

outlaw tax credits altogether

I don't understand how this has to do with your tipping programme?

Oops, typo.

[Nationalist Northumbria]

"They should be glad they already get paid," said the Northumbrian ambassador. "In our country, the tips are not just confiscated but also docked from their wages after confiscation."

[Minskiev]

"They should be glad they already get paid," said the Northumbrian ambassador. "In our country, the tips are not just confiscated but also docked from their wages after confiscation."

"Arf." Wallace is known for these remarks, often meaning something along the lines of "Fitting."

[Minskiev]

Bump.

[Goobergunchia]

We see no good reason why member states should permit employers to outsource any portion of their workers' due compensation to arbitrary individuals who have no contractual obligations toward said workers. Having said that, however, this draft proposal assumes that nations set a uniform minimum wage per location and not, say, per sector. While member states are required to grant their legal residents a minimum standard of living pursuant to the Minimum Standard of Living Act, that resolution does not require a minimum wage of any sort.

[Lord] Michael Evif
Goobergunchian WA Ambassador

[Minskiev]

We see no good reason why member states should permit employers to outsource any portion of their workers' due compensation to arbitrary individuals who have no contractual obligations toward said workers. Having said that, however, this draft proposal assumes that nations set a uniform minimum wage per location and not, say, per sector. While member states are required to grant their legal residents a minimum standard of living pursuant to the Minimum Standard of Living Act, that resolution does not require a minimum wage of any sort.

[Lord] Michael Evif
Goobergunchian WA Ambassador

Location of minimum wage, I meant. Hopefully fixed? Dunno how to word it better.

[Imperium Anglorum]

We see no good reason why member states should permit employers to outsource any portion of their workers' due compensation to arbitrary individuals who have no contractual obligations toward said workers.

C Marcius Blythe. We concur with this assessment.

[Separatist Peoples]

"They should be glad they already get paid," said the Northumbrian ambassador. "In our country, the tips are not just confiscated but also docked from their wages after confiscation."

"Odd that your nation opposes service commerce."

[Minskiev]

Provided an outlaw-tip-credits variant.

[Imperium Anglorum]

C Marcius Blythe. I'm not sure why you need to introduce all these various definitions etc. Just say that a minimum wage cannot be reduced on the expectation that a worker would make up the different on tips.

[Minskiev]

Bump, should submit soon-ish. It may be very short, but does it need to be longer?

[Fachumonn]

Bump, should submit soon-ish. It may be very short, but does it need to be longer?

Usually, short resolutions have many loopholes, but I don't know about this one. Seems fine.

[Imperium Anglorum]

Bump, should submit soon-ish. It may be very short, but does it need to be longer?

The phrase "declares that pay may not be reduced below minimum wage on the expectation that the worker will make up the difference in tips" doesn't do anything substantial. It is the reduction of the minimum wage itself that you want to target, not the pay. If the pay were reduced below the minimum wage... that would be illegal by fact that there is a minimum.

[Tinhampton]

Further to that-ish, regulation and other categories with an area of effect should be Significant-ish. Why do you believe that this is Significant (Regulation/LabourRights) rather than - say - SocialJustice/Mild?

[Imperium Anglorum]

Further to that-ish, regulation and other categories with an area of effect should be Significant-ish. Why do you believe that this is Significant (Regulation/LabourRights) rather than - say - SocialJustice/Mild?

I think the category and area of effect (the description line is "Protecting the workers from exploitation and dangerous conditions at the expense of corporate bottom lines") is fine.

[Attempted Socialism]

For countries without a minimum wage (Such as Denmark IRL, and mine IC), am I correct in assuming this would do nothing? Even if such a nation has an ingrained tipping custom with reduction of wage for workers who may expect tips?

[Nationalist Northumbria]

"Our previous objections still stand."

[West Barack and East Obama]

Dr Justin Obama, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs: What nonsensical, circular logic are you operating on Mr Russell? A minimum wage is a minimum. You can’t go below it. That’s the point. You’re banning nothing.

[Minskiev]

Dr Justin Obama, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs: What nonsensical, circular logic are you operating on Mr Russell? A minimum wage is a minimum. You can’t go below it. That’s the point. You’re banning nothing.

For service workers, the minimum wages paid by the *employer* are lower because the worker is usually expected to make up the difference in tips.