What is the legal age to enter a bar in Wisconsin?

Answer 1

You have to be 18 to bartend in Wisconsin....here's some ages for the other states: AL 21 IL 18 MT 21 RI 18 AK 21 IN 21 NE 19 SC 21 AZ 19 IA 18 NV 21 SD 18 AR 18 KS 21 NH 18 TN 18 CA 21 KY 20 NJ 18 TX 18 CO 18 LA 18 NM 21 UT 21 CT 18 ME 18 NY 18 VT 18 DE 21 MD 21 NC 21 VA 21 DC 21 MA 18 ND 21 WA 21 FL 18 MI 18 OH 21 WV 18 GA 18 MN 18 OK 21 WI 18 HI 18 MS 18 OR 21 WY 21 ID 19 MO 21 PA 18 Canada 18 Mexico 18

Answer 2

Minimum Wage Tipped Workers

A tip is wage according to the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA). You are a tipped employee - that's for example a waitress or bellboy - if you receive regularly and customarily more than $30 a month in tip. If so, your employer is only required to pay $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the federal minimum wage of $7,25 per hour.

http://www.paywizard.org/main/Minimumwageandovertime/MinimumWageTIPRecevers

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Q: Can I use the tip credit for my bartenders?

A: Wisconsin law defines a tipped employee as any employee in an occupation in which he or she customarily and regularly receives tips from patrons or others.

Federal law defines a tipped employee, for minimum wage purposes, as any employee engaged in an occupation in which he or she customarily and regularly receives more than $30 per month in tips. ($20 per month for IRS tip reporting purposes.)

So, as long as your bartenders fall into the category of a tipped employee, then you can take the tip credit for them. If you've been paying them $6.55/hr. you could leave them at that rate and take the tip credit for the difference between $7.25 and $6.55. You would have to inform them prior to doing so. No particular form of notice is required, but a posted notice or a memo explaining "Management is taking a tip credit of $- per hour as permitted by law" would suffice.

Q: I use the tip credit. What if my employees don't make enough in tips to meet the new minimum wage?

A: If over a full pay period, an employee does not receive enough money in tips plus actual base wages to bring him or her up to the full minimum wage, the employer must increase the base wages to make up the difference!

Found March 10th, 2011 at : http://www.wirestaurant.org/press/alerts/090727_minimum_wage.php

Answer 3

Twenty-one years of age is the legal drinking age. This is also the age at which a person can be on licensed premises.

There are some exceptions:

Can children be in a bar with their parents?

Yes. Persons under age 21 may be on licensed premises, and can be sold and allowed to drink alcohol beverages, if they are with their parents, guardians, or spouses, as long as those persons are of legal drinking age; but this is at the discretion of the licensee.

Can "teen nights" or "alcohol free nights" be held at taverns?

There are several ways to legally allow underage persons on licensed premises.

• A municipality (town, village, city) may pass an ordinance allowing underage persons to be in a room on a Class B premises where no alcohol is sold, furnished, served, or consumed by anyone when the underage persons are present. Each time this happens, the local police agency must authorize it in writing.

• Underage persons may be present on Class B premises when no alcohol beverages are consumed, sold, or given away. In other words, the place is closed for the sale or consumption of alcohol beverages. The beer, wine, and liquor must be in locked storage, unless the licensee, agent, or person with an operator's license is present. The licensee must notify the local police agency in advance of when this will occur. No written police authorization is required.

• Underage persons may be in a dance hall or banquet or hospitality room attached to Class B licensed premises for the purpose of attending a banquet, reception, dance or other similar event.

  Are there other times that underage persons can be on licensed premises?

  Yes, there are several. Please see Publication 302, Wisconsin Alcohol Beverage and Tobacco Laws for Retailers, for more information.