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The sub-minimum wage for tipped workers is still just $6.75 an hour in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.1 While seven states including...

A legacy of slavery and a source of race and gender inequity, poverty, and harassment, the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been a...

A legacy of slavery and a source of race and gender inequity, poverty, and harassment, the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been a...

The restaurant industry has been one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the United States economy for decades. Restaurant...

The Ongoing Exodus of Workers from the New York Restaurant Industry and the Looming Impact on Consumers The New York Restaurant Industry...

How Increased Violations of Workers’ Rights in 2021, Coupled with High Harassment, and Low Wages and Tips, Have Pushed Workers to Leave...

Restaurants Nationwide Raising Wages to Save Their Businesses After Covid-19 The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive upheaval in the US...

Why Restaurant Workers, Particularly Mothers, Are Leaving the Industry, and What Would Make Them Stay The COVID-19 outbreak has had...

How The Subminimum Wage Keeps Incomes Low and Harassment High As one of the largest employers of women, one of the largest employers of...

Congressmembers, Pass the American Rescue Plan in Its Entirety! We represent tens of millions of workers, independent businesses, and...

Service Workers’ Experience of Health & Harassment During COVID-19 COVID-19’s devastation of the service sector has been well documented,...

How the Subminimum Wage Disincentives COVID-19 Safety Enforcement in Restaurants Thanks to strong state and local leadership, localities...

Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers as a Racial Equity Measure In 2020, both the COVID-19 pandemic and the uprisings for racial...

Service Workers’ Challenges with Accessing Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19 Before the pandemic, 13 million U.S. restaurant workers...

A New Path Forward After COVID-19 The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has changed everything about the restaurant industry. Two out...

Forty-three states in the United States allow restaurants and other employers to pay tipped workers a subminimum wage, forcing them to...