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Illinois Tipped Workers’ Crisis of Stagnating Wages, Decreasing Tips, and Skyrocketing Cost of Living Introduction “The minimum wage is...

Small business restaurants in Massachusetts are struggling to find staff in what is currently the worst staffing crisis in the industry’s...

In the midst of a post-pandemic affordability crisis, the minimum wage in general and the subminimum wage for tipped workers in...

Starting July 1 the minimum wage for tipped workers will be $11.02. Your employer should always ensure that tips bring you from $11.02 to...

Pride month is an important time each join for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community. June 13...

2024 will be an important election year for the country and for New York State. However, numerous electoral analyses have raised alarms...

Small business restaurants in Illinois are struggling to find staff in what is currently the most acute staffing crisis in the industry’s...

2024 promises to be a very tough election cycle. In order to win competitive races, Democrats will need to both fully consolidate and...

Maryland Tipped Workers Report Pervasive Sexual Harassment, Gender Pay Inequity and Wage Theft  The subminimum wage for tipped workers is...

The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $8.40 an hour in the state of Illinois. While Chicago passed legislation to end the...

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...

2024 promises to be a very tough election cycle. In order to win competitive races, Democrats will need to both fully consolidate and...

2024 promises to be a very tough election cycle. In order to win competitive races, Democrats will need to both fully consolidate and...

Maryland workers won a major victory in 2023 — an increase in the minimum wage to $15 by 2025, joining the ranks of over a dozen states...

As a partially self-governing commonwealth, Puerto Rico has a fraught colonial relationship with the United States, granted neither full...

This report marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of Initiative 82 (I-82) in Washington, DC. I-82 proposed raising the minimum...

Small business restaurants in Connecticut are struggling to find staff in what is currently the worst staffing crisis in the industry’s...

The Nation’s Largest Post-Pandemic Survey of Service Workers Reveals Challenges with New York’s Persistent Subminimum Wage for Tipped...

On May 15, 2023, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed his first executive order as mayor of Chicago. The order focused on boosting youth...