This would be a great time to increase restaurant server min wage still at $2.13

[themaguffin]

It's been infamously stuck at a few dollars for decades.

Now would be the time to do it - because one, it's the right thing to do - but also with so many restaurants shut down and with us still in the pandemic, it's time to reset/restructure this shit. It's been broken. Fix it, so that when we truly open up, it will just be another part of the change and I think that most people can adjust to the changes.

[riversedge]

1. k for visibility

[DonViejo]

2. Massachusetts minimum wage

Effective Jan. 1, 2020, the Massachusetts minimum wage is $12.75 per hour. The service rate is $4.95 per hour.

A 2018 law made changes to the minimum wage, and Sunday and holiday premium pay.

Minimum wage for tipped employees

The service rate for tipped employees who make more than $20 a month will increase from $4.95 to $5.55 per hour as of January 1, 2021. To pay tipped employees this rate, the employer must notify the employee in writing of MGL c151 §7(3). Tipped restaurant employees must make at least minimum wage for all hours worked when they combine tips and wages for hours worked each day. Employers must pay service employees all their tips, or they may use a tip-pooling arrangement that distributes tips in equal proportions to their time pursuant to MGL c149 s 152A. Restaurant employees are exempt from overtime under the state law, but not under federal law. For federal law guidance on restaurant worker overtime, please call the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division in Boston at [phone].

The U.S. Department of Labor has information on the federal overtime requirements for restaurant workers.

https://www.mass.gov/service-details/minimum-wage-and-overtime-information#:~:text=Most%20Massachusetts%20employers%20are%20subject%20to%20minimum%20wage,hour.%20The%20service%20rate%20is%20%244.95%20per%20hour.

[frazzled]

3. It's $6.60 in Illinois

Apparently, with tips combined, $11.00. Were trying to get there.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. The Raise the Wage Act would put it up to $4.95 3 months after the act is passed

https://edlabor.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Raise%20the%20Wage%20Bill%20Text1.pdf

and then by $2.00 each year, until it equals the general minimum wage.

[themaguffin]

6. $4.95 is still low, but it least it increases it.

[backtoblue]

5. K&R