Summary: Restaurants Court backs minimum wageRestaurants must pay waiters and bartenders minimum wage when they are engaged in tasks such as cleaning toilets that are unrelated to their main jobs and do not offer tips, a divided U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday. At issue in the decision by an 11-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was a federal law that allows an employer to pay workers who receive tips as little as $2.13 per hour as long as their tips earn them minimum wage.
