Proposal to Let Bosses Keep Workers’ Tips Provokes Investigation
Abolishing the regulation affirming that tips are the property of the employee would make women and people of color more vulnerable to exploitation.
Paying Tipped Workers Better Wouldn’t Hurt Restaurant Jobs
For decades, restaurant industry lobbyists have predicted that the sky would fall with each tipped-minimum-wage hike. But these case studies found no evidence supporting those claims.
Jane Fonda Takes on ‘the Other NRA’
The actress and lifelong activist joins restaurant workers in the fight to end sub-minimum tipped wage.
Corporate Lobby Pulls Out Old Playbook
National Restaurant Association uses cheap tactics to try to undercut criticism of their anti-worker, anti-consumer agenda.
IPS Director Arrested During Capitol Hill Protest Against Money in Politics
Statement from IPS Director John Cavanagh
Taxpayers Subsidize Restaurant Pay
A new report reveals just how much the restaurant industry’s current low-wage model costs ordinary taxpayers.
Taxes and the Martini Lunch
Restaurant jobs are among the lowest paid, but corporate executives get big tax write-offs for their business lunches.
Restaurant Industry Pay: Taxpayers’ Double Burden
New report shows that while restaurant executives are fighting living wages for their workers, they’re also benefiting from tax subsidies for their own pay.
White House Says Raising Tipped Wage Helps Women
President Obama supports raising the tipped minimum wage and emphasizes that this move would help women, who make up the majority of tipped workers.