{"id":11361,"date":"2021-06-16T00:24:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=11361"},"modified":"2021-06-16T00:24:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T04:24:25","slug":"calls-to-raise-federal-minimum-tipped-wage-from-2-13-for-first-time-since-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=11361","title":{"rendered":"Calls to raise federal minimum tipped wage from $2.13 for first time since 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Purchasing power of base pay has declined precipitously over three decades<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/us-tips-wages-federal-minimum-b1865500.html\">Calls to raise federal minimum tipped wage from $2.13 for first time since 1991<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Eliminating tipping would also eliminate the ratfuckery that surrounds &#8220;topping up&#8221; to minimum wage or whatever; another potential for employer to screw over servers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The same year Barack Obama\u2019s White House published its report, a leading labour advocate told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/06\/29\/326715347\/for-tipped-workers-a-different-minimum-wage-battle?t=1623673682772\" rel=\"nofollow\">NPR<\/a>\u00a0that the topping-up process does not always work.<\/p>\n<p>Saru Jayaraman, of Restaurant Opportunities Centres United, said: \u201cEnforcement is not just difficult, it&#8217;s practically impossible for employers to have to count hour by hour to make sure that tips make up the difference for every worker for every hour they&#8217;ve worked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchasing power of base pay has declined precipitously over three decades Source:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,285,57],"class_list":["post-11361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-tipping","tag-usa","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}