Some small businesses in Chicago said this new way of doing business is the final nail in the coffin for their American dream ...

Restaurant closings and job losses show the failure of Chicago’s wage system, writes the research director at the Employment ...

Two Florida bills proposing to allow lower wages for apprenticeships and internships failed to pass in the 2025 legislative session. The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25, unchanged since 2009, ...

Some Chicago restaurants are hoping Mayor Brandon Johnson follows D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's lead, and moves to repeal a law ...

The proposal, billed as the highest minimum wage in the U.S., would take the minimum wage for hotels and LAX workers to $30 ...

The proposed bill, A5433, would raise the minimum wage for servers, bartenders and other tipped service jobs from $5.62 an hour to the non-tipped minimum wage of $15.49 over several years.

Opponents of A5433 say ending the tip credit would result in prohibitively high labor costs for restaurants and lower wages for employees. Proponents of A5433 say it would prevent wage theft ...

Critics of such a plan argue that under current Illinois law, tipped workers already are required to earn the state minimum wage of $15 and ending the tipped wage would lead to lost jobs and ...