{"id":1797,"date":"2007-08-14T09:27:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T16:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2007-08-14T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T16:27:34","slug":"despite-minimum-wage-increase-tipped-workers-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/08\/14\/despite-minimum-wage-increase-tipped-workers-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Minimum Wage Increase, Tipped Workers Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest081407\/2007_08_14_nayak.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest081407\/2007_08_14_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.cleanair.org\/tobacco\/assets\/waitress.JPG\" alt=\"Waitress\" \/><em>GUESTS: Raj Nayak, Attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last month the Federal minimum wage was increased from $5.15 an hour to $5.85 an hour. This increase, although small, was the first one in over a decade and applies to workers across the nation. However, one class of workers are exempt &#8211; they are tipped workers like waiters and waitresses, car wash attendants, and delivery workers. For them, the minimum wage has been frozen at an astounding $2.13 for the past 16 years. While restaurant owners justify this by citing waiters and waitresses who earn a lot of money on tips at high-end restaurants, the average salary after tips is only $17,000 a year. What most people also don&#8217;t know is that restaurants vary wildly in how tips are distributed. A person waiting tables may end up getting only 60% of the tips he or she earns, after various workers and sometimes even the managers, get their cut. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\">www.brennancenter.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUESTS: Raj Nayak, Attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Last month the Federal minimum wage was increased from $5.15 an hour to $5.85 an hour. This increase, although small, was the first one in over a decade and applies to workers across the nation. However, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}