About Tipped Workers in the Accommodation and Food Services (AFS) Sector - #Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage to $15/hour - #California Fast Food Accountability Standards & Recovery Act - #Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
According to a July 2014 report published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), “there are approximately 4.3 million tipped workers in the United States, and roughly 2.5 million are waiters and bartenders. A plurality of workers, including tipped workers, reside in partial tip credit states that set tipped wages above $2.13 but below the binding state regular minimum wage – 46.4 percent of the overall workforce and 49.4 percent of tipped workers reside in these states. Approximately one-third of all tipped workers reside in states with a $2.13 tipped wage rate, and less than one fifth (18.4 percent) are in ‘equal treatment’ states that do not allow for a tipped or subminimum wage. (…) Tipped workers, who are waiters and bartenders represent 3.4 percent and 2.0 percent respectively, of the overall U.S workforce.”
As you may be aware, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Labor (DOL) Women’s Bureau (WB) have been inviting members of the general public and representatives of the media to attend their meetings of November 30th 2022 and December 13th 2022 on the subject of “Tipped Workers in the Restaurant Industry.” The Association for the Advancement of Civil Liberties (AACL) has opted not to attend the meetings of November 30th 2022 and December 13th 2022 (as well as other meetings the EEOC has previously called upon), in part because of the way the EEOC processed the AACL Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on the subject of California’s Fast Food Accountability Standards and Recovery Act (FAST Recovery Act). The AACL has also opted not to attend the EEOC and the DOL (WB) November 30th 2022 and December 13th 2022 meetings because they have failed to make transparent on [1] whether or not they have taken into account the EPI recommendations of July 10th 2014 with regards to tipped workers in the accommodation and food services (AFS) sector; [2] whether or not they will give prominent voice to people currently/previously employed as waitresses, bartenders and/or baristas when discussing the “situation of tipped workers in the restaurant industry;” [3] whether or not they have reached out to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) to have her speak about the challenges she faced when she was previously employed as a waitress and a bartender in the State of New York; [4] whether or not they have reached out to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) to ask for an update on her good-faith efforts to have the federal minimum wage increased to $15/hour for all workers (whether or not they are/were previously employed in the AFS sector).
The AACL unequivocally condemns discrimination on the bases of gender, racial background, sexual orientation, national origin, religious affiliation and/or disability status. The AACL is very much a proponent of increasing the federal minimum wage to $15/hour for all workers (whether or not they are/were previously employed in the AFS sector). The AACL is conscientious that increasing the federal minimum wage to $15/hour may not be enough for all people in the AFS sector to live comfortably out of poverty given the ever-increasing cost of living standards as well as the current global economic inflation. The AACL is also conscientious that single unmarried waitresses and female bartenders with a child (or more than one child) will be the most adversely impacted by the ever-increasing cost of living standards as well as the current global economic inflation. Be well. Take care. Keep yourselves at arms distance.
Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W
Anti-Racist Human Rights Activist
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