Bobby Scott: “This is an open invitation for employers, particularly those involving restaurants and hotels, to lower their employees'…”

“This is an open invitation for employers, particularly those involving restaurants and hotels, to lower their employees' wages by combining traditionally tipped occupations with nontipped occupations. For example, they will be able to put a line cook on the floor for a few hours a day and then apply the tip credit to all of the hours that the employee works. Tipped workers already are paid less per hour and have less access to benefits such as paid sick leave, healthcare, short-term disability and life insurance, and under this bill employers would be given a pass to not pay workers what they otherwise would have been owed. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to reject the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.”