1. Employers should be explicit about who and what that money(gratuity) is intended .
2. Employers can't decide if tipping is allowed in their businesses.
3. A payment of a service or similar charge imposed by the employer.
4. There is no requirement for employers to establish a regular period for paying out tips and other gratuities to their staff
5. An employee can contract out of or waive this standard, even if the employee agrees to do so in writing or verbally.
6. Before June 10, 2016, the ESA did not cover tips and other gratuities.
7. A tip pool is a collection of employees’ tips that is redistributed among some or all of the employer’s employees. 
8. Employers do not need to get their employees’ written or oral agreement to take a deduction from their tips .
9. Employers are allowed to keep the tips they earn themselves unless the employer spends most of his or her time performing the same work.
10. Managers can keep their tips and can generally participate in a tip pool.