District of Columbia February 25, 2022

Disgraced Labor Group Returns to DC To Try to Eliminate Tip Credits One More Time

After a ballot measure defeat in 2018, collapse of its no-tipping experiment, and a discrimination lawsuit – the Restaurant Opportunities Center and its advocacy nonprofit One Fair Wage (OFW) are back in Washington, D.C. to pass ballot measure Initiative 82, another attempt to eliminate the District’s tip credit. Specifically…
February 18, 2022

Update: Minimum Wage Proposals Are Picking Up Across the Country

A handful of states started off the New Year with ballot measure proposals to raise their minimum wages. As state legislatures have kicked into gear, even more proposals to raise state and local minimum wages have emerged. On top of those, this week One Fair Wage, a union-backed nonprofit that…
New Hampshire February 11, 2022

New Hampshire Knows the Devastating Impacts of a $15 Minimum Wage

If activists can’t mandate their job-killing $15 minimum wage at the federal level, they’re going to go after the states. But many New Hampshire lawmakers know the harmful consequences of a steep $15 minimum wage, and have voted to protect employers and their employees accordingly. Last summer, the aggressive anti-tipping pro-union group …
February 4, 2022

New Study: “Fair Work Week” Laws Force Employees To Go Part-Time

So-called “fair scheduling” laws politicians say incentivize full-time jobs actually shift employees involuntarily to more part-time work, a new University of Kentucky study supported by the Employment Policies Institute finds. On top of other restrictive mandates such as steep minimum wage hikes and paid leave requirements which have been demonstrated…
Hawaii January 27, 2022

Hawaii Hurtling Toward Job-Killing $18 Minimum Wage

On Monday, Hawaii senators in the Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee voted unanimously to advance SB 2018, a bill that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026. That represents a near-80% increase over the current minimum wage of $10.10…
Michigan January 21, 2022

Existing Wage Increases Aren’t Enough: Wage Activists Set Sights on Michigan

Just as the New Year ushered in a historic number of state and local minimum wage increases, union and progressive activists are pushing to raise the stakes even further. Just as California became the state with the highest minimum wage in the country on January 1, raising its wage to…
California January 14, 2022

California Lawmakers: Leave the FAST Recovery Act in 2021

Last year, union-backed state Rep. Lorena Gonzalez and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) attempted a regulatory takeover of the California fast food industry by a state appointed unelected council. Gonzalez’s legislation, entitled the “FAST Recovery Act,” pointed to a severely biased study authored by reliably left-wing University of…
January 7, 2022

“Tips on Top” is an Empty Promise

Rising minimum wages have seen a significant amount of spotlight entering the new year. But wage floors for tipped restaurant employees are also going up in 2022. This year, twenty states are raising their tipped minimum wages along with 56 localities. Notably, efforts backed by One Fair Wage, an…
December 30, 2021

Previewing the Minimum Wage Landscape for 2022

An Overview of 2021 This past year marked a vigorous debate over minimum wages. At the federal level, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to a pending COVID relief bill that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and eliminated the federal tip credit. The nonpartisan…
California December 17, 2021

California’s Cautionary Tale about the Minimum Wage

California dreaming continues at the expense of the state’s own employees. As of January 1, California will be the first state to implement a $15 per hour minimum wage for most businesses (employers of 25 or fewer will reach $15 next year). The Golden State was one of the…