February 23, 2024

NY’s Ill-Advised “One Fair Wage” Bill Isn’t What Workers Want

New York lawmakers reintroduced a so-called “One Fair Wage” bill earlier this year, threatening to eliminate the state tip credit in just a few years. If enacted, the bill would raise the base wage for tipped restaurant workers from $10 per hour upstate and $10.65 per hour downstate up…
February 9, 2024

UPDATE: New State Wage Hikes Could Kill Roughly 212K Jobs

As state legislatures start off the new year, lawmakers have been quick to jump on new minimum wage hike proposals, including bills that would eliminate state tip credits. The research on potential impacts of these bills is clear: they employees by reducing employment opportunities, limiting earnings, and forcing businesses to…
February 2, 2024

New Anti-Tip Credit Bill Would Turn Maryland Into D.C. Disaster

This week, the Maryland Senate Finance Committee heard public testimony on SB 160, a bill that would eliminate Maryland’s tip credit and raise the base wage for tipped restaurant workers by over 300 percent by 2027. The bill mirrors legislation from last year that died in the committee after restaurant…
January 19, 2024

Newly Proposed State Wage Hikes Could Kill Nearly 100K Jobs

As state legislatures start off the new year, lawmakers have been quick to jump on new minimum wage hike proposals, including bills that would eliminate state tip credits. The research on potential impacts of these bills is clear: they employees by reducing employment opportunities, limiting earnings, and forcing businesses to…
November 17, 2023

The Year is Almost Over, But Minimum Wage Proposals Are Still Alive and Well

After a flurry of proposals on minimum wage hikes and tip credit elimination at the local, state, and federal levels this year, union activists aren’t done yet. Campaigns led by tipped employees to save tip credits prevailed this year in Maryland (and local Prince George’s County), Rhode Island, Connecticut, and…
October 20, 2023

New $15 Minimum Wage Ballot Proposal Would Kill 44,000 Michigan Jobs

Anti-tipping activist group One Fair Wage announced it submitted enough signatures to qualify a measure that would create a $15 minimum wage and fully eliminate the state’s tip credit. If certified and approved on the ballot in November 2024, this measure would increase the state’s current tipped minimum wage by…
September 22, 2023

Despite Advancing Bill, Chicago Employees Speak Out Against Tip Credit Elimination

This week, the Chicago City Council’s Workforce Development Committee voted to advance a proposal that would eliminate the tip credit city wide. This policy has played out disastrously across the country, costing employees their jobs and tips, and even forcing restaurants to shut down. Michael Saltsman, executive director of the…
August 25, 2023

Unions Demand GOP Candidates Support Job-Killing Wage Hikes

Ahead of the first Republican presidential primary debate, organizers with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Fight for $15 are threatening to protest the venue. Yet the Fight for $15’s namesake policy to raise minimum wages has drawn bipartisan opposition and would cause significant job loss and earnings loss…
July 14, 2023

Eliminating Chicago’s Tip Credit Will Hurt Mayor Johnson’s Teen Employment Priorities

As minimum wage and anti-tip credit proposals sputter to a halt at the federal and state levels, Chicago appears to be one of the last remaining targets this year for tip credit elimination. One Fair Wage has announced a $25 million campaign to eliminate tip credits across the country, and…
June 30, 2023

DC’s Second Wage Hike This Year Will Double Pain for Restaurants

While District of Columbia residents celebrate the Independence Day holiday weekend, the city’s restaurants will be quietly saddled with yet another minimum wage hike. On July 1, D.C. will raise the tipped minimum wage again up to $8 per hour, after a previous increase to $6 per hour…