It’s been a contentious difficulty in D.C. for almost 10 years: ought to tipped employees be paid the identical minimal wage as different employees?
Twice since 2018, D.C. residents have authorised voter initiatives to pay tipped employees the identical minimal wage.
In her funds proposal, Mayor Muriel Bowser included language repealing the regulation.
On Sunday, D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson introduced the council plans to vote Monday on what he known as a compromise of decreasing tipped minimal wage to $8 an hour however requiring employers to make up the distinction if the $8 per hour plus suggestions doesn’t equal $20 per hour. It will additionally cap any service charges eating places cost be capped at 10%.
“The upper minimal wage for the tipped employees is part of the compromise to make this extra engaging to employees,” Mendelson stated.”And the cap on the service charges, you might keep in mind, is that I need to say months in the past, however perhaps it was a yr in the past, we had an intensive debate within the council about service charges, and there have been, there’s a whole lot of controversy round them. So placing a cap on it’s interesting to many individuals.”
Ryan O’Leary, the restaurant employee who proposed Initiative 82, instructed News4, “The ‘compromise’ on the desk is an insult to employees’ intelligence and fully untenable.”
The council can be placing the brakes on one other voter authorised regulation. Mendelson stated there might be no cash to implement Initiative 83, which might have allowed ranked selection voting in D.C.
Mendelson instructed reporters the council is hoping to revive greater than $100 million in cuts proposed by Bowser to applications together with help for little one care employees, rental help, low revenue housing and public security.
Mendelson acknowledged the $60 million the council plans to make use of to avoid wasting these applications comes from funds that haven’t been licensed by the District’s chief monetary officer, elevating questions as as to if the CFO will approve the council’s funds
News4 reached out to the CFO and the mayor’s workplace for remark, and neither workplace replied. The council is about to vote on all of those points Monday.
