Abstrakt: |
But just as importantly, we need to make sure workers in this industry and other essential workers and their families can live with dignity. There are over one million tipped restaurant workers in states that allow employers to pay the federal minimum of only $2.13 an hour, which won't even allow a worker to buy a box of bubble gum. Nearly all restaurant workers have experienced a dramatic change in their job status, resulting in job and income losses, and thrusting millions of workers and their families into poverty. [Extracted from the article] |