Section 279:26-b Tip Pools.
I. Tips are wages and shall be the property of the employee receiving the tip and shall be retained by the employee, unless the employee voluntarily and without coercion agrees to participate in a tip pool which is not required and not controlled in any manner by the employer.
II. If the employee agrees to participate, the employer is not precluded from administering a valid tip pool in which participation is voluntary, not coerced, and the employer exercises no control over the manner in which tips are pooled other than for accounting and bookkeeping purposes.
Source. 2007, 263:119, eff. June 29, 2007.