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The impact on employers and workers within the restaurant industry is a major focus of the Fight for $15 movement. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, restaurants and other food services employ about sixty percent of all workers paid at or below the minimum wage, as of 2018. [59]
The federal minimum has held at $7.25 an hour since 2009, but an increasing number of states are upping their base pay for workers. 9 million workers are getting a raise on January 1. Here's where.
Apple Store workers in Towson, Maryland, the first of the tech giant’s retail employees to unionize, made history again by voting late Saturday in favor of authorizing a strike.
Poverty statistics for these workers is that 16.5% of tipped restaurant workers are in poverty and 17.6% of back-of-house workers are in poverty. [24] On a national average as well, the U.S. livable wage is $31.90 where the tipped subminimum wage is $2.13, and the average minimum wage is $7.25.
Many employers for non-essential work shifted to teleworking to avoid infections in office environments at the suggestion of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and by the end of March 2020, all 50 states in the U.S. had confirmed cases and deaths and had initiated stay-at-home orders. As a result of the high unemployment rates and social ...
(This May 11 story has been refiled to say IAM, instead of AIM, in paragraph 1) (Reuters) - Workers at Apple's store in Towson, Maryland, have voted in favor of authorizing a strike, the ...
Union affiliation by U.S. state (2023) [1] [2] Rank State Percent union members Percent change Union members Percent represented by unions Percent change Represented
Despite a high rate of compliance, hundreds of workers at the University of Maryland Medical System may have run afoul of the mandate by the state’s largest hospital system for them to be ...