Day: July 17, 2015

If you work for tips, you have a lot of protection under both the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and Montana state law. Even though tips may constitute the larger part of your earnings, you are entitled to the legal minimum wage even if your tips in any given workweek don’t bring you up to that level. A big difference between federal and state law on this issue is that federal law allows the use of tips to meet the minimum wage, while state law requires payment of the minimum before tips. After reading this blog, you’ll see that state law is far more generous than federal law. The FLSA requires that