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tipped wage
Coverage of tipped wage in the Nexus archive.
- Chicago mayor links restaurant industry to ‘slavery’ as tipped wage fight intensifies
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson defended his plan to eliminate the tipped wage, linking the restaurant industry to slavery and rejecting a City Council effort to block the policy. The phaseout of the subminimum wage for tipped workers, set to raise base pay to the full minimum wage by 2028, faces opposition from restaurant owners who warn of rising prices and job cuts.