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With a second meeting of the newly-formed California Fast Food Council this week, Governor Gavin Newsom yet again attempted to spin his $20 fast food industry minimum wage as a success. But the newest data show the crisis following the new law is worsening fast. Just last month,…

This week, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new survey of nearly 200 restaurant owners who collectively employ tens of thousands of California employees at hundreds of locations. The first-of-its-kind survey asked about the impacts of a $20 minimum wage. Most have already resorted to price hikes,…

A new survey found that tipped restaurant employees in states around the country overwhelmingly prefer saving the tip credit, over higher flat wage alternatives. The survey was conducted by CorCom, Inc. of nearly 4,000 tipped employees in states facing tip credit elimination threats this year. These states included Massachusetts, Ohio,…

More and more states, counties, and cities are instituting mid-year wage hikes – primarily based on adjustments for inflation. As minimum wage mandates reach new heights in some places across the country, the bulk of economic evidence shows drastic increases cost jobs, close businesses, and contribute to inflation.

With a new tipped wage hike in place as of Monday, July 1, the latest data on job trends paints a harrowing picture for the future of Chicago’s restaurant industry. Lawmakers should watch these trends closely as the city begins eliminating its tip credit over the next few years.

Governor Gavin Newsom has questionable methods for finding numbers to support his misguided $20 minimum wage hike for fast food workers. On June 26, Governor Newsom released a statement claiming the fast food industry was adding jobs under the $20 minimum wage mandate. To make this claim, Newsom referenced…

Anti-tipping activists have used Washington, D.C. as the cornerstone of their anti-tip credit agenda in other states and cities across the country. These activists have used questionable data and ignored the facts that indicate Initiative 82 has wreaked havoc on restaurants and their employees in the District. This May, D.C.

New York’s legislature adjourned last week, meaning two bills aiming to eliminate the state’s tip credit have an uncertain future until the session reopens in January. Anti-tip credit activists are now urging candidates to make tip credit elimination part of their campaigns ahead of the November election. But here’s a…

Last Friday, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled against a One Fair Wage-backed ballot measure that would have raised Michigan’s minimum wage to $15 per hour, and eliminated the state’s tip credit. The proposed measure originally stalled with the state’s Board of Canvassers after the petition’s language was changed from the…

This spring, several states saw bills and ballot measures to raise their minimum wages or eliminate their tip credits for tipped restaurant employees. EPI has been active at the state and local level warning against the adverse consequences of these measures, particularly for affected employees who may lose their jobs,…