It’s time to make minimum wage laws apply to ALL workers (no, they don’t at present) - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
▻https://www.foodpolitics.com/2022/11/its-time-to-make-minimum-wage-laws-apply-to-all-workers-no-they-dont-a
For reasons of history—and, alas, racism—laws requiring minimum wages do not apply to restaurant workers, farm workers, and home employment workers, all mostly people of color.
This report focuses on restaurant workers who depend on tips:
Unique among pay inequities, the subminimum wage for tipped workers was an original pay gap created intentionally to deny Black women any wage at all, forcing them to live on tips. This original and intentional pay inequity has been compounded over the last 160 years since Emancipation by ongoing inequities in hiring by employers and tipping and harassment by customers — resulting in an unlivable situation for Black women. The fact that Black women persist in the restaurant industry is a testament to many of these workers’ pride in their work as hospitality professionals who deserve to be remunerated as such.
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