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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1540

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

 

By Representatives R. King, Silver, Zellinsky, Hankins, R. Meyers, Youngsman and P. King

 

 

Read first time 1/27/89 and referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

 

 


AN ACT Relating to crediting tips for state minimum wage requirements; adding a new section to chapter 49.46 RCW; and declaring an emergency.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 49.46 RCW to read as follows:

          Employers of persons who receive tips shall be permitted to credit reported or allocated tips as wages not to exceed twenty percent of the applicable minimum wage rate.  An employee shall not be affected by this section unless such employee customarily receives more than one hundred dollars per month in tips.  Such credit shall not be permitted unless the employee has been informed by the employer of the provisions of this section and all tips received by the employee have been retained by the employee.  This section shall not be construed to prohibit the pooling of tips among employees who customarily and regularly receive tips.  A tipped employee for the purposes of this section is an employee who reports or has allocated to such employee, tip income of one hundred dollars or more per month:  PROVIDED, That in no event shall the aggregate of wages paid and tips credited to a tipped employee be less than three dollars and eighty-five cents per hour.

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.