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Caddies on Deck: Legal Obligations and Seasonal Hiring for Golf Facilities
Quick Hits Golf courses and resorts tend to rely on seasonal hiring for the summer. Overtime pay, minimum wage, and child labor laws typically apply to part-time, seasonal workers. Golf resorts have legal obligations to prevent workplace safety hazards, including the risk of heat-related illness. Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, and South Carolina have abundant golf tourism and high concentrations of golf courses.
Allegations Against Chef Put Spotlight on Violence in Hospitality Workplaces
Quick Hits Noma’s chef stepped down after recent reports of physical abuse toward his employees. Employers may be liable for not taking appropriate steps to address threats, harassing or abusive behavior, or violence in the workplace. Unpaid apprenticeships, called stages, may run the risk of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). René Redzepi was a founding chef at Noma, a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark, which ceased traditional restaurant service in 2024.
No Tax, No Problem for Hospitality Employers, Part 1: The New No Tax on Tips and Overtime Provisions Explained
October 24, 2025 By R. Scott DeLuca, Christopher P. Hammon, and Michael K. Mahoney In this inaugural episode of Ogletree’s No Tax, No Problem podcast series, Scott DeLuca (of counsel, Buffalo) and Chris Hammon (shareholder, Miami)—who are the co-chairs of Ogletree Deakins’ Hospitality Group, are joined by Mike Mahoney (shareholder, Morristown/New York) to discuss the “no tax on tips or overtime” provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Eleventh Circuit: Service Charges Are Wages, Not Tips, Under FLSA
United States: Eleventh Circuit: Service Charges Are Wages, Not Tips, Under FLSA 29 March 2022 by Christopher P. Hammon and Victoria Vish Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart Your LinkedIn Connections with the authors On March 18, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Compere v.
Eleventh Circuit: Service Charges Are Wages, Not Tips, Under FLSA
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Eleventh Circuit: Service Charges Are Wages, Not Tips, Under FLSA | JD Supra
On March 18, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Compere v. Nusret Miami, LLC, a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), that Nusr-et Steakhouse properly used automatically charged fees on bills to pay its employees’ wages because the fees were service charges. The plaintiffs, a group of tipped employees, had argued these fees were not service charges but instead were tips.
Miami Beach Employers Sue City to Stop Enforcement of Ordinance Imposing Higher Minimum WageEntry
The City of Miami Beach passed a wage ordinance in June 2016 that would increase the minimum wage for employment within the municipality to $10.31 effective January 1, 2018, and increasing $1.00 each year until reaching $13.31 in 2021. The Florida minimum wage for 2017, by contrast, is $8.10 per hour.
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