A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the labor laws of north carolina to reduce the amount of tips that may be counted as wages of tipped employees through december 31, 2016, and requiring subsequently that no tips may be counted as wages.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Effective January 1, 2016, until December 31, 2016, G.S. 95‑25.3(f) reads as rewritten:
"(f)	Tips earned by a tipped employee may be counted as wages only up to the amount of five dollars ($5.00) per hour. Tip pooling is permissible among employees who customarily and regularly receive tips; however, no employee's tips may be reduced by more than fifteen percent (15%) under a tip pooling arrangement."
SECTION 2.  Effective January 1, 2017, G.S. 95‑25.3(f), as amended by Section 1 of this act, reads as rewritten:
"(f)	Tips earned by a tipped employee shall not be counted as wages. Tip pooling is permissible among employees who customarily and regularly receive tips; however, no employee's tips may be reduced by more than fifteen percent (15%) under a tip pooling arrangement."
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.