Compensation: gratuities.

Existing law prohibits an employer or agent, as defined, from collecting, taking, or receiving any gratuity or a part thereof that is paid, given to, or left for an employee, as defined, by a patron, or deducting any amount from wages due an employee on account of a gratuity, or requiring an employee to credit the amount, or any part thereof, of a gratuity against and as a part of the wages due the employee from the employer. Existing law declares a gratuity the sole property of the employee or employees to whom it was paid, given, or left for. Existing law requires an employer that permits patrons to pay gratuities by credit card to pay the employees the full amount of the gratuity that…