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Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, joins Lisa Dent to explain why the Illinois Restaurant Association’s idea for the city to impose fines on restaurants that don’t pay the difference when their subminimum wage workers don’t make enough in tips to reach the $15.80 minimum wage is a bad idea. Follow The Lisa Dent […]

Sam Toia, President of the Illinois Restaurant Association, joins Lisa Dent to explain why he’s urging the Chicago City Council to reject a proposal to eliminate the subminimum wage for tipped workers. Follow The Lisa Dent Show on Twitter:Follow @LisaDentSpeaksFollow @SteveBertrand Follow @kpowell720 Follow @maryvandeveldeFollow @LaurenLapka

Chicago’s minimum wage will increase July 1, hitting $15.80 per hour for many workers across the city. The annual bump comes as Chicagoans experience a strong labor market despite layoffs in certain industries, such as Big Tech. Though inflation has cooled off historic highs, prices remain elevated. The minimum wage will increase 2.5% on the first of the month, a percentage that does not match ...

It was the revelation that, while I was privileged to have been oblivious to these challenges in the past, I should have been aware and proactive much earlier.

Subminimum wage should be eliminated; Drinking and driving never a good mix; Microfiber pollution is a major problem

HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont has announced that the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, a division of the state Department of Aging and Disability Services, has been awarded a $13.9 million

From the column: "Paying all workers, disabled or not, the same wage confuses two types of equity."

"Without the subminimum wage allowance, even employers who want to hire the disabled will have a disincentive to do so," University of Minnesota professor Carlisle Ford Runge writes.

A group of bipartisan senators and representatives introduced legislation last week that would end subminimum wages for disabled people.

Voters approved proposals to tax the rich, build worker power, and make housing and education more affordable.