Featured on Employment Law This Week: The Department of Labor ("DOL") rolls back the 80/20 rule.

The rule prohibited employers from paying the tipped minimum wage to workers whose untipped side work—such as wiping tables—accounted for more than 20 percent of their time. In the midst of a federal lawsuit challenging the rule, the DOL reissued a 2009 opinion letter that states that the agency will not limit the amount of side work a tipped employee performs, as long as that work is done "contemporaneously" with the tipped work or for a "reasonable time" before or after that work. The letter was previously withdrawn by the Obama administration.

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