News Summary

• Hospitality jobs often require employees to provide their own uniforms and supplies.
• In past decades, restaurant employees could often write expenses (like work clothing) off on their taxes.
• A 2017 law removed that possibility for federal taxes.
• If you want to contest your restaurant’s policies on employee-provided supplies and garments, “document everything — receipts, texts about purchases,” says employment attorney Nick Norris, P.L.C., of Watson, Norris & PLLC.