Voters in Arizona and Massachusetts are set to decide whether employers should be able to continue to pay tipped workers such as servers and bartenders a lower minimum wage than non-tipped workers.

Mel Nichols, a 37-year-old bartender in Phoenix, Arizona, takes home anywhere from $30 to $50 an hour with tips included. But the uncertainty of how much she’s going to make on a daily basis is a constant source of stress.

“For every good day, there’s three bad days,” said Nichols, who has been in the service industry since she was a teenager. “You have no security when it comes to knowing how much you’re going to make.”

The amount tipped workers make varies by state. Fourteen states pay the federal minimum, or just above $2 an hour for tipped workers and $7 an hour for non-tipped workers.

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    What the fuck are you talking about? You just reiterated what I said. The only thing you seem off on is not know that there is absolutely a federal minimum wage that is balls low as a sort of hard stop for any state trying to keep it too low but every state sets their own minimum wage.

    And it’s not tax fraud complying to the requirements laid out by federal and state regulations.

    What a fucking idiot lol you won’t take the time to read a comment but you’ll write a fucking comment just as long saying the same exact shit as the comment you were too lazy or retarded to read👏👏👏 fuckin bravo champ