Photo: Postcard PR On International Workers Day last Thursday, the Berkeley City Council devoted a meeting exclusively to discuss the minimum wage. California is one of seven states that have abolished a sub-minimum wage for tipped workers; elsewhere, tipped workers earn an hourly wage as low as $2.13 (the federal sub-minimum wage since 1991) and live […]
Van Nguyen
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Op-ed: It’s time to lift the floor for all workers in Berkeley
[Editor’s note: The city of Berkeley is considering raising its minimum wage with an eye toward related policy changes in San Francisco. In his recommendation to the city’s Labor Commission, which has been studying the issue, Mayor Tom Bates asked the panel to consider setting special rules for tipped workers that could potentially grant an exception to the […]
