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Colorado is trying to make it possible for more employees — like Walmart and McDonald's workers — to accept tips
Business Insider ^ | May 16, 2023 | Alex Bitter

Posted on 05/17/2023 5:00:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Workers at businesses like McDonald's and Walmart could soon be able to accept cash tips under a proposed law before the Colorado legislature.

If enacted, the bill would keep an employer "from taking adverse action against an employee who accepts a cash gratuity offered by a patron of the business," per a summary of the proposal. The bill passed the Colorado state house and senate earlier this month and is now headed to Governor Jared Polis for a signature.

Tipping has become more common at shops and restaurants, with many businesses adding a prompt asking for a tip to digital payment screens. But some businesses, including big names in retail, don't allow their employees to take cash tips from customers.

Walmart, for example, has historically forbidden its employees from accepting cash tips, as has McDonald's. Neither company immediately responded to requests for comment on their policies or the Colorado bill from Insider.

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1 posted on 05/17/2023 5:00:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I see nothing wrong with that.


2 posted on 05/17/2023 5:06:01 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Tipping is annoying, even more so when it's mandatory.

3 posted on 05/17/2023 5:06:16 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Dem city fast food worker hinting at wanting a tip.
Urban dweller: “Here’s your tip, sucker. Next time don’t forget my nugget sauce.”
Five shots in the chest from a .45


4 posted on 05/17/2023 5:06:51 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tip backlash. Report tip jars to IRS.


5 posted on 05/17/2023 5:11:29 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tipping for what? Ringing up your purchase which they get a salary to do? I have a tip for them. Don’t smoke in bed.


6 posted on 05/17/2023 5:24:01 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tipping is out of control in this country. Just name the price for the service.


7 posted on 05/17/2023 5:26:37 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: BitWielder1

I tip for good service with smiles, only!


8 posted on 05/17/2023 5:29:12 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yeah...I MIGHT tip a Wal-Market or Spitburger employee.


9 posted on 05/17/2023 5:30:15 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tipping in a Denver McDonald’s? For what? Bringing what you ordered at a kiosk to the pick-up counter and yelling your order number? Or tipping for getting your order correct in the middle of a pot-induced haze?


10 posted on 05/17/2023 5:37:43 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tip for a basic service!? Screw that.
Pay your employees more and quit trying to guilt-trip people into paying more. What a load of Bovine Excrement!


11 posted on 05/17/2023 5:58:33 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’ll bet this is about employers being able to claim that the employees are tipped workers. Then the employers can cut their regular wages.


12 posted on 05/17/2023 6:07:50 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MinorityRepublican

My tip: don’t let people walk out of the store with stolen stuff.


13 posted on 05/17/2023 6:07:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: glorgau

Tipping Chipotle workers at a fast casual restaurant (fancy fast food)?

No service provided.

14 posted on 05/17/2023 6:30:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Agreed. Got a dirty look from the clerk that handed me my cookie when I didn’t push the tip button. She never even took a step!


15 posted on 05/17/2023 6:41:58 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: griswold3
Agreed. Got a dirty look from the clerk that handed me my cookie when I didn’t push the tip button. She never even took a step!

Entitlement.

16 posted on 05/17/2023 6:59:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tip Walmart. LOL, I check myself out. At least they’re not charging for plastic bags anymore.


17 posted on 05/17/2023 7:09:37 PM PDT by the_daug ( )
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I gave a lady at Walmart a $5 tip the other week because she was running the only full service checkout and was working her butt off while I saw numerous coworkers of hers standing around chit-chatting with each other and basically doing nothing. She deserved it!


18 posted on 05/18/2023 5:00:27 AM PDT by BamaBelle
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tipping creates and ENTITLED CLASS of people and I’m sick of it, particularly in jurisdictions that already require the paying of a ‘living wage’ to all workers. In Texas, we don’t have that crap and many servers get sub-minimum wages, so I do continue to tip here - but send me to a blue state, and it’s tough crap on them (and some of them almost get violent about it).


19 posted on 05/18/2023 5:32:09 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BamaBelle

I’m not trying to be argumentative but what you saw was somebody doing their job. When you get hired you’re supposed to do the job as outlined in the job requirements. Its Wal-Mart’s responsibility to reward their employees not ours.

If you want to give someone money that’s your business. I give money to people who ask me for it all the time. I’m not tipping the salaried employees at every store I go into from now on. Its a ridiculous idea. Soon you’ll have to tip the Fed Ex driver, the UPS driver, the Amazon driver, the mailman, the pharmacist and basically everyone you do business with. Its a really bad idea.


20 posted on 05/18/2023 8:01:38 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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