(Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)The Labor Department's Office of Inspector General said Monday it was launching a review of how Trump administration officials crafted a proposed rule that would allow employers to keep tips. The audit will examine whether officials followed protocol when they moved to undo the Barack Obama-era regulation that declared tips the property of the workers who collected them. “The proposal would help decrease wage disparities between tipped and non-tipped workers,” the Labor Department said in a statement at the time. “It’s a bizarre thing for the Labor Department to say we don’t really know enough to estimate the impact of this thing, but we’re going to do it, anyway,” Holzer said. “It would literally mean billions out of the pockets of workers.”Read more:The Trump administration wants restaurant workers to share tipsTrump tried to save their jobs.

Source: Washington Post February 05, 2018 23:59 UTC