Marriott Hotel withholds $9 million in tips from workers.

San Francisco's Marriott Hotel has been ordered by a judge to pay around $9 million in withheld fees to hundreds of workers who served food and drink at banquets from 2012 through April 2017. The hotel illegally kept the fees, which customers reasonably understood to be tips for food servers. The workers' lawyer said this was the first case to go to trial since a state appeals court ruled in 2019 that service charges belonged to the employees under California law if they were reasonably viewed as tips by the customers who paid them.