Bill > HB251

This bill clarifies the definition of employees who receive tips or gratuities in Delaware. It states that these employees must earn more than 50% of their income from tips or gratuities, and the occupation must involve direct receipt of tips or gratuities from customers. The bill allows employers to continue paying a tipped minimum wage to these primary direct service employees, but employers cannot direct employees to engage in tip pooling arrangements - these must be controlled by the employees themselves. The bill also specifies that tips automatically added to a bill or charged to a credit card must be paid directly to the employee at the next pay period, and employers cannot deduct any service fees from the employees' tips or gratuities.