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After completing your&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.lipatts.pa.gov/Account/Login.aspx\">PA Tier II (PATTS) Report online</a>, please send your signed invoice/certification form with a check or money order enclosed.</p>\r\n<p><b>Online payments are not currently accepted</b>.&nbsp;Please visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"/content/copapwp-pagov/en/agencies/dli/programs-services/workplace-and-public-safety/epcra-faqs.html\">Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know FAQs</a>&nbsp;for more information.</p>\r\n<p>Checks or money orders should be mailed to:</p>\r\n<p><i><b>General Mailing Address</b></i><br>\r\nPA Department of Labor &amp; Industry<br>\r\nBureau of Occupational &amp; Industrial Safety / Pennsafe Program<br>\r\nP.O. Box 68571<br>\r\nHarrisburg, PA 17106-8571</p>\r\n<p>or</p>\r\n<p><i><b>Certified Mailing Address</b></i><br>\r\nPA Department of Labor &amp; Industry<br>\r\nBureau of Occupational &amp; Industrial Safety / Pennsafe Program<br>\r\n651 Boas Street<br>\r\nHarrisburg, PA 17121-0750</p>\r\n"}}">

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​An employer can take a tip credit for the time a tipped employee spends performing directly supporting tip-producing work provided that the employee does not perform that work for more than 20% of their work week.</p>\r\n<p><b><i>Tip-producing work&nbsp;</i>includes all aspects of the service to customers for which the tipped employee receives tips.</b>&nbsp;Examples of tip-producing work include, but are not limited to:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>a server's tip-producing work includes providing table service, such as taking orders, making recommendations, and serving food and drink.</li>\r\n<li>A bartender's tip-producing work includes making and serving drinks, talking to customers at the bar and, if the bar includes food service, serving food to customers.</li>\r\n<li>A nail technician's tip-producing work includes performing manicures and pedicures and assisting the patron to select the type of service.</li>\r\n<li>A busser's tip-producing work includes assisting servers with their tip-producing work for customers, such as table service, including filling water glasses, clearing dishes from tables, fetching and delivering items to and from tables, and bussing tables, including changing linens and setting tables.</li>\r\n<li>A parking attendant's tip-producing work includes parking and retrieving cars and moving cars in order to retrieve a car at the request of customer.</li>\r\n<li>A service bartender's tip-producing work includes preparing drinks for table service. A hotel housekeeper's tip-producing work includes cleaning hotel rooms.</li>\r\n<li>A hotel bellhop's tip-producing work includes assisting customers with their luggage.</li>\r\n<li>The tip-producing work of a tipped employee who both prepares and serves food to customers, such as a counterperson, includes preparing and serving food.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b><i>Directly supporting tip-producing work</i>&nbsp;is work that prepares for or assists tip-producing work</b>. Examples of directly supporting work include, but are not limited to the following:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A server's directly supporting work includes dining room prep work, such as refilling salt and pepper shakers and ketchup bottles, rolling silverware, folding napkins, sweeping or vacuuming under tables in the dining area, and setting and bussing tables.</li>\r\n<li>A busser's directly supporting work includes pre- and post-table service prep work such as folding napkins and rolling silverware, stocking the busser station, and vacuuming the dining room, as&nbsp;well&nbsp;as wiping down soda machines, ice dispensers, food warmers, and other equipment in the service alley.</li>\r\n<li>A bartender's directly supporting work includes work such as slicing and pitting fruit for drinks, wiping down the bar or tables in the bar area, cleaning bar glasses, arranging bottles in the bar, fetching liquor and supplies, vacuuming under tables in the bar area, cleaning ice coolers and bar mats, making drink mixes, and filling up dispensers with drink mixes.</li>\r\n<li>A nail technician's directly supporting work includes cleaning pedicure baths between customers, cleaning and sterilizing private salon rooms between customers, and cleaning tools and the floor of the salon.</li>\r\n<li>A parking attendant's directly supporting work includes cleaning the valet stand and parking area and moving cars around the parking lot or garage to facilitate the parking of patrons' cars.</li>\r\n<li>A bartender's directly supporting work includes slicing and pitting fruit for drinks, cleaning bar glasses, arranging bottles, and fetching liquor or supplies.</li>\r\n<li>A hotel housekeeper's directly supporting work includes stocking the housekeeping cart.</li>\r\n<li>A hotel bellhop's directly supporting work includes rearranging the luggage storage area and maintaining clean lobbies and entrance areas of the hotel.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p><b>The following examples illustrate&nbsp;work that is not part of the tipped occupation</b>&nbsp;because the work does not provide service to customers for which tipped employees receive tips, and does not directly support tip-producing work. This list is illustrative and is not exhaustive.</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Preparing food, including salads, and cleaning the kitchen or bathrooms, is not part of the tipped occupation of a server.&nbsp;</li>\r\n<li>Cleaning the dining room or bathroom is not part of the tipped occupation of a bartender.&nbsp;</li>\r\n<li>Ordering supplies for the salon is not part of the tipped occupation of a nail technician.&nbsp;</li>\r\n<li>Servicing vehicles is not part of the tipped occupation of a parking attendant.&nbsp;</li>\r\n<li>Cleaning the dining room and bathrooms is not part of the tipped occupation of a service bartender.&nbsp;</li>\r\n<li>Cleaning non-residential parts of a hotel, such as the exercise room, restaurant, and meeting rooms, is not part of the tipped occupation of a hotel housekeeper.&nbsp;</li>\r\n<li>Cleaning the kitchen or bathrooms is not part of the tipped occupation of a busser.&nbsp;</li>\r\n<li>Retrieving room service trays from guest rooms is not part of the tipped occupation of a hotel bellhop.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>Review more&nbsp;specific examples and calculations&nbsp;in the sections below.</p>\r\n"}}">

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2026

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