NC Restaurants Say They Didn't 'Keep' Tips In DOL Wage Suit
By Benjamin Morse ( February 6, 2026, 4:54 PM EST) -- Two North Carolina restaurants urged a federal court Friday to narrow a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging they unlawfully kept and pooled tips from front-of-house workers and allocated the funds to tip-ineligible back-of-house employees, arguing they did not "keep" the tips by distributing them to nontipped workers....
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