Good luck to new york. I can't help but feel its more of a band aid though. I wonder how this will play into delivery incentive schemes. As far as I am informed, a fairly sizeable portion of comp is the little bonuses you get for doing a lot of work. If the system works by backloading your pay, and now your pay is uniform, you would expect the supply of labor to go down, methinks.
> not including tips — the first such minimum pay-rate in the country for an industry that exploded in…
Hell yeah! Please let this catch on everywhere, tips should be pure gravy for service workers and not part of the base salary. If a business is making any demand of an employee's time they need to be paid at least minimum wage by the person making that demand.
It is silly how bad we've messed up "you want a human for 1hr, this is the rate."
It's already federal law when it comes to the minimum wage. People like to bandy about the fact that tipped employees have a minimum wage of $2.13/hr without also mentioning that the employer is legally required to make up the difference to meet the $7.25/hr minimum if tips fall short of that amount.
Of course, not all employees know this, and some employers take advantage of that fact. But that's an enforcement issue, not an issue of a lack of legislation.
I realize this is highly unpopular when said out loud ... if tips are "pure gravy" then I'm going to be far more discerning when giving them out. I happen to think there are numerous jobs far more strenuous or difficult or important to me than a food server.
Good luck to new york. I can't help but feel its more of a band aid though. I wonder how this will play into delivery incentive schemes. As far as I am informed, a fairly sizeable portion of comp is the little bonuses you get for doing a lot of work. If the system works by backloading your pay, and now your pay is uniform, you would expect the supply of labor to go down, methinks.