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Washington, DC residents will vote on a measure that would get rid of a system that lets restaurants pay tipped workers below minimum wage.
Initiative 82 would gradually increase the tipped minimum hourly wage from the $5.05 [7] in 2021 to at least $17.50, [8] matching the non-tipped minimum wage in 2027. [9] Although some DC restaurants voluntarily have stopped accepting tips and instead have begun paying their servers at or above minimum wage in the aftermath of Initiative 77 ...
Kamala Harris said she wants to increase the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour, and three other states have measures on the ballot to up their state minimum wages to $15 or more ...
The Raise the Wage Act of 2017, which was simultaneously introduced in the House of Representatives with 166 Democratic cosponsors, would raise the minimum wage to $9.25 per hour immediately, and then gradually increase it to $15 per hour by 2024, while simultaneously raising the minimum wage for tipped workers and phasing it out. [173]
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
The General Assembly’s Fair Wage Act of 2023 increased Maryland’s state minimum wage from $13.25 to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, 2024. Some counties in Maryland have higher minimum wages depending ...
Midterms this year represented a victory for workers in Nebraska, whose minimum wage will go up to $15 an hour, and tipped employees in Washington DC.
The District of Columbia (a political division coterminous with Washington, D.C.) has had a system of direct voting since 1979, shortly after it gained home rule in 1973. Residents have the ability to place new legislation, or legislation recently passed by the city council, on the ballot for a popular vote.