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L.A. restaurants seize opportunity to push for a tip credit

 Apr. 21, 2015

Operators are using public demands for a higher wage to make their case for letting tips count toward a $15 minimum wage.

Oregon sets model for restaurant scheduling restrictions

 By Peter Romeo on Aug. 09, 2017

A bill signed into law yesterday by the governor will penalize restaurants for making last-minute shift changes. It's widely seen as a model for other states.

Worker centers spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 01, 2013

At a tech conference, you expect acronyms to drop like F-bombs at a Sopranos barbecue. POS, PCI, CMS—the presentations were an effing alphabet soup. But one all-caps tag was usually implied rather than said outright, even though it figured into considerable conversation at FSTEC.

S.F. November ballot - soda tax, Muni, minimum wage, more

Aug. 13, 2014

A review of initiatives on the November ballot also shows that proponents of a $15-an-hour wage have succeeded in putting the increase to a popular vote.

Virginia consumers, restaurants to bear brunt of statewide liquor price hike

Oct. 16, 2014

Gov. Terry McAuliffe has directed the state liquor authority to raise prices as a way of closing a $2.4 billion budget deficit. Restaurateurs and consumers point out that prices are already jacked up by the third highest liquor tax rate in the nation.

Las Cruces City Council to discuss minimum wage exemptions

Nov. 24, 2014

Las Cruces’ mayor is suggesting that some businesses be spared the increase that takes effect Jan. 1, just as not all employers are affected the same by the Affordable Care Act.

Resistance is futile

By Peter Romeo on Jan. 12, 2015

The restaurant industry should say yes to a minimum-wage hike, and focus its energies on determining the size of the increase and the schedule for implementing it.

Watching the clock

By Sara Rush Wirth on Feb. 18, 2015

Is scheduling certainty the next battle in the labor fight?

Ohio restaurants get green light for alcoholic drinks to go

May 04, 2015

A bill signed into law by Gov. John Kasich would allow some cities to create ‘entertainment districts’ where customers can walk around outside with drinks in hand.

Workforce

Judge shoots down Obama overtime rule

By Alaina Lancaster on Aug. 31, 2017

A federal judge in Texas has struck down an Obama administration rule that would have raised the salary threshold at which restaurants would have to pay overtime.

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