Additional standards that apply to service and nonprofit industries

1. A tip credit of thirty-three percent of the minimum wage may be allowed for tipped employees. The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but such a tip credit must not exceed thirty-three percent of the minimum wage. The employer who elects to use the tip credit provision must inform the employee in advance and must maintain written records showing that the employee receives at least the minimum wage when direct wages and the tip credit allowance are combined. 2. Tip pooling is allowed only among the tipped employees. A vote of tipped employees to allow tip pooling must be taken, and fifty percent plus one of all tipped employees must approve it. The employer must maintain a written record of each vote on tip pooling, including names of employees voting and the vote totals. A vote on whether to pool tips is required if requested by fifty-one percent or more of the tipped employees. The tipped employees shall provide documentation verifying the request. Time spent in meetings called by the employees exclusively for tip issues is not work time. 3. Tipped employees employed in the nonprofit gaming industry means all employees who are employed as gaming attendants by a gaming organization licensed under North Dakota Century Code section 53-06.1-03. a. Gaming sites that regularly have four or fewer tipped employees on duty can require tip pooling among all tipped employees at the site. b. A gaming organization licensed under North Dakota Century Code section 53-06.1-03 may require tip pooling by blackjack (twenty-one) dealers at an authorized site as provided in North Dakota Century Code section 53-06.1-10. This tip pooling requirement only pertains to any employee, pit boss, or supervisor when actually dealing blackjack (twenty-one). c. Pit bosses or supervisors at gaming sites are not tipped employees and cannot be part of the tip pool when performing functions of those positions other than dealing blackjack (twenty-one).