The fight continues.
Opponents of a ballot initiative that would slowly phase out the subminimum wage that is paid to workers who collect tips have filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court seeking to reverse a recent ruling by the D.C. Board of Elections that put the measure on the November ballot.
The lawsuit is yet another salvo in the years-long battle over the fate of the tipped wage in D.C., which voters chose to do away with in a 2018 vote before it was overridden by the D.C. Council.
In some jobs — largely those in bars and restaurants, but also in nail salons and parking lots — employers pay a subminimum wage of $5.05 an hour (to increase to $5.35 in July), and employees collect tips on top of that. If those tips don’t get them to the prevailing minimum wage of $15.05 (increasing to $16.10 in July), the employer has to cover the difference. Proponents say the wage lets employers keep costs down and allows some employees to make much more than the minimum wage; opponents say it creates pay disparities and can leave employees at the mercy of their bosses to get what they’re owed.
Through 2018’s Initiative 77, opponents of the tipped wage pushed to phase it out, and last year they said they would try again. Last month, what’s now known as Initiative 82 was cleared for the ballot.
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