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If you are being paid as a tipped employee, you must be eligible to receive tips. Employers must provide employees with more information before claiming a tip credit. If proper notice is not given, the employer will not be able to use a tip credit. The notice does not have to be in writing, but smart employers will want to document that they have complied with the law. A tipped employee must now be provided with the following information, before the employer takes a tip credit:     1.  The amount of the cash wage the employer pays the employee, which must be at least $2.13 per hour;     2.  The additional amount the employer is using as a credit against tips received, which cannot exceed the difference between the minimum wage ($7.25) and the actual cash wage paid by the employer to the employee;     3.  That the additional amount claimed by the employer on account of tips as the tip credit may not exceed the value of the tips actually received by the employee;     4.  That the tip credit cannot be applied to any tipped employee unless the employee has been informed of the tip credit provisions of the FLSA; and     5.  That all tips received by the tipped employee must be retained by the employee, except for valid pooling of tips.        http://www.orlandoovertimepay.com/Articles/tip-credit-overtime-under-FLSA.html