{"id":116765,"date":"2024-10-21T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116765"},"modified":"2024-10-21T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:50:45","slug":"should-the-minimum-wage-be-lower-for-workers-who-get-tipped-two-states-are-set-to-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116765","title":{"rendered":"Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mel Nichols, a 37-year-old bartender in Phoenix, Arizona, takes home anywhere from $30 to $50 an hour with tips included. But the uncertainty of how much she\u2019s going to make on a daily basis is a constant source of stress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor every good day, there\u2019s three bad days,\u201d said Nichols, who has been in the service industry since she was a teenager. \u201cYou have no security when it comes to knowing how much you\u2019re going to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That uncertainty exists largely because federal labor law allows businesses to pay tipped workers, like food servers, bartenders and bellhops, less than the minimum wage as long as customer tips make up the difference. Voters in Arizona and Massachusetts will decide in November whether it\u2019s good policy to continue to let employers pass some of their labor costs to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot measures reflect an accelerating debate over the so-called subminimum wage, which advocates say is essential to the sustainability of the service industry and detractors say pushes the cost of labor off employers\u2019 shoulders and leads to the exploitation of workers.<\/p>\n<p>The amount tipped workers make varies by state. Fourteen states pay the federal minimum, or just above $2 an hour for tipped workers and $7 an hour for non-tipped workers. <\/p>\n<p>Arizona employers can pay their tipped workers $3 less hourly than other workers. Under current rates, that means tipped workers\u2019 base pay is $11.35 an hour. <\/p>\n<p>Voters will decide whether to approve a measure backed by state Republicans and the Arizona Restaurant Association to change the minimum for tipped workers to 25% less than the regular minimum wage as long as their pay with tips is $2 above that minimum. <\/p>\n<p>The hourly minimum wage in Arizona is currently $14.35 and increases yearly according to inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in Massachusetts are being asked to eliminate the tiered minimum-wage system. <\/p>\n<p>There, voters will decide on a measure to incrementally increase the state\u2019s tipped worker wage \u2014 currently $6.75 per hour \u2014 until it meets the regular minimum wage by January 2029. The measure was put forward by One Fair Wage, a not-for-profit that works to end the subminimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>If voters approve the measure, the Bay State would join seven states that currently have a single minimum wage. Michigan will soon join that group after an <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/michigan-minimum-wage-increase-9c9a63a92b2cc29b521a9fa9a7dfc711\">August state Supreme Court ruling<\/a><\/span> initiated a phase-out of the subminimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re not making the money that you should be making to pay your bills, it becomes hard on you,\u201d said James Ford, a longtime Detroit-based hospitality worker. \u201d(The ruling) makes me think we\u2019re moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other states have wage measures on the ballot. In California, voters will choose whether to <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/minimum-wage-california-ballot-measure-c430b0821884b1f53d62f5cf4178143c\">raise the hourly minimum wage from $16 to $18<\/a><\/span> by 2026 in what would be the highest statewide minimum wage in the country. Measures in Alaska and Missouri would gradually raise minimum wages to $15 an hour while also requiring paid sick leave.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two years, Washington, D.C., and Chicago also have started to eliminate the subminimum wage. <\/p>\n<p>Employers must ensure that workers get the full minimum if they don\u2019t make that much with tips. But they don\u2019t always comply with federal labor law. One in 10 restaurants and bars investigated nationally by the U.S. Labor Department between 2010 and 2019 violated a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act, resulting in the establishments paying $113.9 million in back wages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about the 2024 Election Today's news: Follow live updates from the campaign trail from the AP. Ground Game: Sign up for AP's weekly politics newsletter to get it in your inbox every Monday. AP's Role: The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information on election night, with a history of accuracy dating to 1848. Learn more.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about the 2024 Election<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The issue disproportionately affects women, who make up about 47% of the U.S. workforce but nearly 70% of those who work in tipped professions, according to an AP analysis of U.S. Census data.<\/p>\n<p>In Arizona, Republican state Sen. J.D. Mesnard, the sponsor of Proposition 138, said the measure is a win for both businesses and lower-wage workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe employer is protected in the sense that they can preserve this lower base, knowing that there are going to be tips on top of it,\u201d Mesnard said. \u201cThe tipped worker is guaranteed to make more than minimum wage, which is more than they\u2019re guaranteed today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nichols doesn\u2019t support it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would reduce my hourly, and anything that reduces my hourly is not something that I want to lean into,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t believe that business owners need any more cuts in labor costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proposition 138 was initially put forward as a response to a ballot measure pushed by One Fair Wage that would create a single minimum wage of $18, but the group abandoned the effort after threats of litigation from the restaurant association over how it collected signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, One Fair Wage will focus on trying to pass a wage hike in the Legislature. Democratic State Rep. Mariana Sandoval said she hopes her party in November can flip the Legislature, where Republicans hold a one-seat majority in both chambers.<\/p>\n<p>After working for tips for more than 20 years, server Lindsay Ruck, who works at a restaurant at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, said she\u2019s faced her fair share of belligerent customers. But because their tips make up such a significant part of her pay \u2014 approximately $60 an hour \u2014 she\u2019s hesitant to stand up to them. <\/p>\n<p>To Ruck, higher base pay \u2014 not less \u2014 is called for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that there should be just a single minimum wage and then people should get tipped on top of that,\u201d Ruck said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Restaurant Association and its state affiliates warn of reduced hours, lower employment and menu price hikes if employers can\u2019t rely on tips to pay their workers. That\u2019s why Dan Piacquadio, a co-owner of Harold\u2019s Cave Creek Corral restaurant outside Phoenix, is hoping voters pass Proposition 138.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just a way to protect our current system that\u2019s been there for 20 years and protect restaurant owners, keep restaurants affordable, and most importantly, keep very good pay for all tipped workers,\u201d Piacquadio said.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2012 and 2019, the number of restaurants and people employed at those restaurants grew at a faster clip in the seven states that have a single minimum wage compared to states that pay the federal minimum tipped wage, according to labor economist Sylvia Allegretto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sitting here in a state that has a $16 minimum wage,\u201d Allegretto said from Oakland, California, where she works at the left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research. \u201cNo subminimum wage, and we\u2019ve got a thriving restaurant industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/minimum-wage-tips-election-arizona-18e51dd6b9a424ef348d64b2b02a8da4\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Nichols, a 37-year-old bartender in Phoenix, Arizona, takes home anywhere from $30 to $50 an hour with tips included. 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