- “The biggest question from Friday’s disappointing Canadian employment report is how much can be traced to Ontario’s sharp minimum wage increase last month.” [Theophilos Argitis and Erik Hertzberg, Bloomberg] Decline in teen employment in US since 2000 was sharpest for those age 16–17, examining some reasons [David Neumark and Cortnie Shupe, Mercatus Working Paper via Connor Wolf, Inside Sources]
- “Will D.C. End Tipping?” [Thomas Firey, Cato] “I’m your bartender. I don’t want a raise.” [Ryan Aston, Washington Post] Hollywood campaign isn’t helping [Wendyll Caisse, Inside Sources on Restaurant Opportunities Center vs. Restaurant Workers of America]
- If freedom of contract had been respected, whole debate would look different to begin with: “A Colorado Minimum Wage Waiver?” [Ryan Bourne, Cato]
- Federal regulatory role: “Will Restaurants Steal Employees’ Tips if the Feds Let Them?” [Robert Verbruggen, NRO]
- Seyfarth Shaw survey: while employers beat more wage/hour cases at the certification stage in 2017, overall class action payouts in workplace class actions continued to soar [Glenn Minnis, Cook County Record]
- “If You Don’t Want To Tip 15%, An NYC Lawyer Will Help You Sue Applebee’s” [Angela Underwood, Legal Newsline]
Filed under: Canada, minimum wage, restaurants, wage and hour suits
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Re Mr. Aston’s (the waiter) article in the New York Post, it’s pretty obvious to this former restaurant employee (both tip and non-tip) that this whole thing is being driven by the desire of the SEIU to grab a portion of the employees’ wages before the employee sees it. They do not like the fact that an employee may get cash directly. Also, the tipping system is merit-based which is also against union philosophy.
On the min wage: For middle-class kids part of the drop in employment of teens is that in the summers more of them are better off and busy with sports etc and so a job has a lower priority. If your parents gave you a car you don’t need to work in the summer to buy one. 19 yr olds are often in college. For minority teens, there may be no jobs near them, but they are obviously the most hurt by a high min wage.
One of the most critical things for teens is to get some work experience, any experience, in order to get a real job. By the time I was in college I had worked at McD’s, a factory, a gas station, painted houses, and then in college worked for the profs. I had a whole cv by the time I graduated.