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California's $20 Minimum Wage Will Hurt the Fast Food Workers It's Meant to Help

Boosting minimum wages often increases unemployment and raises prices.

Reason

Afternoon Edition: Subminimum wage is officially going away in Chicago

Plus: The Bears’ Claypool era ends, 6 things to do this weekend and more.

Chicago Sun-Times

Big win for Brandon Johnson, tipped restaurant workers as City Council approves phased elimination of subminimum wage

Council members backed the new law, which supporters say levels the economic playing field for waitstaff in Chicago’s world-class culinary scene.

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V/Line security guards claim they're being underpaid

Security guards contracted to work for V/Line allege they have been paid eight per cent below the award rate, which places them below minimum wage.

AAP

Labour figures from 1997 victory warn Starmer against cautious approach

Exclusive: People involved in Tony Blair’s victory believe party needs to set out much clearer policy platform to win voters’ trust

The Guardian - UK

Ontario's 2-tier minimum wage: As discriminatory now as it was in the 1990s

The province of Ontario has increased its minimum wage to $16.55 per hour — unless workers are students under the age of 18, in which case their labour is only worth $15.60.

The Conversation

Small steps, slight delay for key parts of Johnson’s progressive agenda

Eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been teed up for a final vote on Friday. The City Council also created a working group to study reopening shuttered mental health clinics and held a hearing on a plan to create a dedicated fund to combat homelessness.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Gavin Newsom pulls a Ron DeSantis on McDonald's, fast food chains

Newsom has borrowed from DeSantis' war on Disney and the Bud Light boycotts to make his own political statement.

The Street

Gov. Newsom signs legislative compromise on fast food restaurant minimum wage and working conditions; campaign announces it will withdraw referendum

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed Assembly Bill 1228 (AB 1228) on Sept. 28. AB 1228 is a legislative compromise reached with proponents of a veto referendum on a different bill (Assembly Bill 257) that qualified for the 2024 ballot. AB 1228 will repeal AB 257, which was passed during…

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UK Treasury chief says he'll hike the minimum wage but rules out tax cuts while inflation stays high

Britain’s Treasury chief is announcing a hike in the national minimum wage

The Independent UK

Why eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped workers matters so much to women

Women make up 70% of the wait staff in Chicago, and of 746 occupations analyzed recently, wait staff had the lowest median annual earnings, just $21,000.

Chicago Sun-Times

California raises minimum wage to $20

The change, signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, will go into effect in 2024.

Salon

What is the minimum wage in different states across the US?

Here is everything you need to know about state minimum wage laws in some states across the US

The Independent UK

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Florida minimum wage to increase from $11 to $12 on Sept. 30

Florida’s minimum wage will increase by $1, from $11.00 per hour to $12.00 per hour, on Sept. 30, 2023.

The Independent UK

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law to raise minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour

WEKU

Low-wage workers say minimum wage hike in Kentucky would ‘help tremendously’

It’s not easy to find folks who make the minimum wage – even in convenience stores, where you might expect to. Estimates of the number of Kentuckians who make $7.25 an hour range from 5- to 12-thousand. Perhaps those relatively low numbers explain why groups like the Kentucky Center for…

Chicago Sun-Times

Tipped workers have mixed feelings on higher minimum wage

The proposal to eliminate a lower minimum wage for tipped workers would phase in the change over five years. It passed a City Council committee on Wednesday and could be voted on by the full Council on Oct. 4.

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Phase-in of higher minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers clears City Council panel

Restaurants would get five years to pay waitstaff the minimum wage, absorb higher labor cost, if measure clears full council.

Chicago Sun-Times

I’m a tipped server; Mayor Johnson’s restaurant minimum wage plan could ruin my livelihood

Consider what happened when Washington, D.C., enacted a similar plan.

The Guardian - UK

UK care home bosses demand next government funds 44% pay rise for staff

Exclusive: Firms call on future PM to introduce £15-per-hour minimum wage for frontline workers

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor Johnson OKs compromise giving restaurants 5 years to phase in higher pay for tipped workers

Tipped workers — now paid 60% of Chicago’s minimum wage — would receive annual pay increases of 8% starting next July and continuing through July 2028.

Chicago Sun-Times

Back to the kitchen? Mayor’s floor leader rejects latest restaurant industry compromise on subminimum wage

Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) said the restaurant industry’s latest proposal to raise the minimum wages for tipped workers to $20.54 an hour at Chicago restaurants with more than $3 million in annual revenue is “dead on arrival.”

The Conversation

'It is impossible for me to be unpaid': 3 ways to fix student work placements

A major plank of the federal goverment’s bid to overhaul Australian universities is ensuring more students from diverse backgrounds finish university.

Capital & Main

Who Needs a $25 Minimum Wage?

Likely all Los Angeles workers, says a new study of pay and expenses. But the political will is not yet there.

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