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There are laws in place for service workers related to minimum wage. The employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t meet the rate for hours worked. It seems to me that’s not sufficient for the times.

Hypothetically, if everyone were to stop tipping in the U.S. would things be better or worse for workers? Would employers start paying workers more?

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[-] cbarrick@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Worse.

Without tips, the employer pays $7.50/hr. That's not enough to live on, especially since food service workers are almost universally working part time.

With tips, the employer pays $2.50/hr, but tips can make up the difference to be somewhat more reasonable.

To abolish tipping, we need to:

Abolish servers' wage ($2.50) / pay full minimum wage.
Double the minimum wage to $15/hr.

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Just doubling the minimum wage isn't sufficient. It'd need to be made to match inflation and cost of living as they rise in the future.

[-] Toes@ani.social 4 points 9 months ago

I'm thinking the government needs to fix the prices where they are and force humanity to accept a 30$/hr minimum wage to gain back the equivalent buying power of an individual in the 70s.

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