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Andrew Cuomo’s Awful Proposal To Eliminate New York’s Tip Credit
December 2017 · Michael Saltsman · Forbes
In 2013, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was selected one of the worst Governors in America. With his latest proposal to trash New York’s minimum wage for employees who earn tip income (such as restaurant servers), it appears he’s gunning for the title again in 2018. A quirk in New York’s labor law allows the Governor to bypass the legislature to create industry-specific wage requirements. It’s disturbingly simple: A wage board hand-picked… -
Michael Saltsman: Tipped jobs would suffer from hike in minimum wage
June 2017 · Michael Saltsman · Columbus Dispatch
Leaving a tip for your server at the end of a meal out is a custom as American as apple pie. A poorly understood provision in companion bills being supported by Ohio Reps. Marcia Fudge, Joyce Beatty, Marcy Kaptur and Tim Ryan, along with Sen. Sherrod Brown, puts this tradition, and the highly paid tipped jobs it supports, at risk. The bill, Raise the Wage Act of… -
Maine Voices: Awareness of tipped-wage issue might have tipped balance on Question 4 vote
December 2016 · Michael Saltsman · Portland Press Herald
A majority of Maine voters approved a $12-an-hour minimum wage on Nov. 8. But many voters didn’t understand that, when they voted for $12, they were also voting for a radical (and little-advertised) provision to raise the minimum wage for tipped employees by 220 percent. Fortunately, the Legislature has a chance to fix it. After the election last month, we used Google’s Consumer Survey tool to poll 500… -
Here’s a tip: Leave the R.I. tipped wage alone
March 2015 · Michael Saltsman · The Providence Journal
Employees at Rhode Island’s world-famous restaurants may have been too busy gearing up for the start of tourist season to notice legislation heard this month by the House Committee on Labor that could put their tip income — and their job — at risk. State Rep. Aaron Regunberg, D-Providence, and his allies in the state’s powerful labor unions have proposed the drastic and dangerous step of increasing… -
On Tipped Wage, Berkeley Should Learn From its Neighbors
July 2013 · Michael Saltsman · Contra Costa Times
Berkeley currently is entertaining a proposal to match its neighbors in San Jose and San Francisco with a $10-or-higher hourly minimum wage. Wisely, Mayor Tom Bates offered the modest caveat that such an increase also should account for the tip income earned by restaurant employees such as waiters and waitresses. A loose coalition of labor organizers and academics has offered a barrage of misinformation in an attempt…