> Will there be a restaurant bailout?
Maybe it could be like farm subsidies, but we pay restaurants to close for a certain amount of time / certain days of the week, on the condition that they pay employees normal wages for those days.
Maybe it could be like farm subsidies, but we pay restaurants to close for a certain amount of time / certain days of the week, on the condition that they pay employees normal wages for those days.
"Normal wages" for many restaurant workers in the U.S. exclude tips. Without tips, "normal wages" is below the minimum wage.
While it might better than nothing, it's not liveable.
Restaurants are required to bump tipped employees up to the non-tipped minimum wage if the tips don't put them over it. Thus, "normal wages" in this case would be the non-tipped minimum wage.
So you could employ a restaurant worker at $0/h and then bump them to minimum wage, because the tips will never cut it? Basically, you'd be collecting all the tips? This cannot seriously be legal!?