For tip-earning positions, employers are allowed to pay less than minimum wage if the tips received would ultimately equal minimum age earnings. Columnist Maddie Peters argues that because tipping is not a required gesture, businesses should not rely on this added income when paying tip-earning employees.
The cost of living continues to rise as the minimum wage remains the same. Columnist Kayla Mayer argues that low wages hurt both businesses and employees.
The St. Paul City Council passed a $15 minimum wage ordinance Wednesday afternoon. Large businesses, including the University of St. Thomas, will increase minimum wages to $11.50 by July 1, 2020 and reach $15 an hour by 2023.
St. Thomas’s 2018 first-year class is the biggest in history which leads to renovations on campus, St. Paul expects to vote to raise the minimum wage, and more deaths are being discovered as wild fires rage on both ends of California. Reporter Emily Haugen has today’s News in :90.
This is News in :90 for Friday, March 3, 2017.
Protesters from the group 15 Now Coalition and other groups rallied for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour Tuesday night outside Coffman Union in Minneapolis.
The hourly wage moves from $6.15 to $8, the first in a series of steps that will eventually set it at $9.50 an hour for big companies, including those with gross annual sales topping a half-million dollars.
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013.
