A series of measures that could be applied in different states would change the working conditions for workers in the gastronomic sector. According to the claim promoted by a civil organization, the objective is that The payments that these workers receive have the minimum wage as a floor and cannot be inferior. Currently, most of the United States allows your base salary to be lower and the rest to be calculated in tips.
The beginning of 2024 was associated with the application of a series of changes in the minimum wage that were approved during 2023. States such as California or New York, among many others, updated the base amount that a worker must earn within their territories. This, which was good news for millions of workers, hardly applies to restaurant employees.
Restaurant workers could start earning minimum wage in the United States
With the exception of seven states, In the US, employees in the gastronomic sector have part of their salary calculated in tips. This means that Your base salary is lower than what is established by the minimum wage and it is estimated that they will receive a certain amount of money per month from what clients leave for their service.
The law establishes that if the amount does not reach the federal minimum wage, which has not been updated in more than a decade, the employer must cover that difference. In addition to representing a disadvantage in terms of money, many employees report that this is not fulfilled.
Now, The civil organization One Fair Wage promotes the demand for more districts to join the single minimum wage for all workersas stated NBCNews. Specifically, The next ones that could join this regime are Michigan, Arizona, Ohio and Massachusetts, which should specify measures that were pending and that would make this a reality. In that same line, there is speculation about the reintroduction of a bill in Connecticut to legislate this matter.
The measure would change the base salary of gastronomic workers in the United States
In turn, One Fair Wage relies on the precedents of the cities of Chicago and Washington DC, which took steps in this direction, to promote the initiative in places like New York.
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