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Chicago Restaurants Are Already Bracing for Upcoming Wage Hikes
March 22, 2024•MinimumWage.com
On July 1, Chicago will begin eliminating its tip credit, raising the minimum wage for tipped restaurant employees from $9.48 to $15.80 per hour (smaller businesses with less than 20 employees are currently subject to a $15 per hour regular minimum wage). Similar to the aftermath in the District of Columbia, hundreds of restaurants immediately…
Ahead of Hearing, Massachusetts Employees Want to Save The Tip Credit
March 15, 2024•MinimumWage.com
In Massachusetts this week, state lawmakers heard testimony on a proposed measure that would eliminate the tip credit statewide. If lawmakers don’t act on this proposal, it could end up on the ballot this November. But tipped servers and bartenders in the Commonwealth say they don’t want the current system to change. A new survey…