The Trump administration is pushing a socialist tip-pooling scheme for restaurants

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The Department of Labor unveiled a proposal Monday that would force workers who receive tips to share that money with untipped workers, The Wall Street Journal reports. The department says the plan would "decrease wage disparities between tipped and non-tipped workers."

Restaurant owners and industry associations frequently argue in favor of tip-pooling, claiming it eases the difficulty of finding people to fill the less lucrative untipped positions. Labor advocates say that in reality, the practice is often exploited by restaurant owners to pay their workers less.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.