Topgolf Reaches Deal with Tipped Workers in Nationwide Wage Suit

Topgolf International Inc. and a Dallas-area outpost agreed to settle a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action involving more than 200 “bayhosts” and bartenders who alleged they were underpaid because of tip-credit violations, according to federal court filings in Texas.

Details of the deal are not yet available. But the agreement will resolve the workers’ claims that Topgolf improperly took a tip-credit from their wages, even though it wasn’t eligible to do so because it failed to comply with the FLSA’s rules on tip-pooling, total wages, non-tipped work, and notice.

The joint notice of settlement was filed March 4 in ...