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> Or... here's a radical idea... Your radical idea is to restate what I just said?

• euroderf 3y ago
  > Make the employers—ALL EMPLOYERS—pay their workers a full wage Not in my version. > After all, we already do it for "parties of six or more." Just reduce that number to one, raise the prices 15% in those sectors, and pay for the damn labor. You forgot the part where it has to guaranteed go to the workers. There have been big lawsuits about just this issue.
  • ttfkam 3y ago
    I did not forget that. Our tax code and wage laws have tiers for tip wage workers and non-tip wage workers. It was presumed that if you remove that carve out by abolishing tips, the part you mention would follow. As for wage theft by employers, that is indeed a major issue already for both tip and non-tip workers. Why would anyone assume that problem would go away regardless of the existence of tipping? I'm all for punishing wage theft aggressively, though that is a separate issue entirely.
    • euroderf 3y ago
      I wouldn't assume that wage theft would go away. It's just that the issue is a lot more severe when the base pay is sub-minimum.